Alpha Max’s POVIt’s past dinner, but my appetite doesn’t quite agree with me putting anything into my mouth. I keep on having a strange feeling in my gut that something was wrong, and I can't shake it off, no matter how much I try. After repeatedly pacing back and forth in my office, I decided to go for a perimeter run. Just to calm myself down and maybe tire myself so that I get some sleep.Two hours passed like a blur as I supervised the night’s patrol. Everything was going smoothly, but my wolf became even more alert. That’s when it hit me; it was quiet. Too quiet. Beside the sound of paws against the ground, which I knew belonged to my trackers and warriors, there wasn’t any other sound—no crickets, locusts, not even the tree branches. Everything was still, like time itself suddenly just stopped.Upon realising this, things started to change.Heavy clouds began to plague the full moon and the stars all over the night’s sky, promising a heavy storm that was yet to come. What’s str