BEATRICEI don’t mean to move—but my body remembers what it’s like to protect before my mind has time to argue.The sky is clear when the first scream rips through the air.We’re just finishing drills outside the main training grounds. Aria has the senior trainees running paired takedowns. I’m across the clearing with the younger wolves, correcting a boy’s footing, when I hear it—a sharp, terrified cry from beyond the fence line.Then another.My head snaps toward the trees.Rogues.I smell them before I see them—iron and ash, sweat and blood. Ferals who haven’t shifted in weeks, some maybe longer. The scent of desperation clings to them like rot.Then I see her.A girl no older than Bailey, cornered near the far edge of the trees. Her wooden staff is broken in half, and she’s backing away fast, eyes wide, breath caught in her throat. The rogue in front of her is huge—long limbs, crazed eyes, teeth bared in a snarl.There’s no time to think.I run.I hear Aria shouting orders behind me
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