THE LAST THING SHE WAS HOLDINGEIRA'S POVI came in from the south.That is where Cassian placed me when we split the approach, with the south unit, twelve wolves who let me run beside them because Reece told them to and because not one of them was willing to be the person who tried to stop me. I had no weapon. I had no plan that extended beyond getting to my son. These are not the conditions under which a careful person enters a clearing full of hostile wolves.I stopped being careful approximately three seconds after Reece said the cells are empty.The war cry hits the air before I clear the tree line.It doesn't start as sound. It starts as pressure in the sternum, in the oldest part of the chest, in the place that existed before language and reason and the careful management of things too large to look at directly. It moves through the cold air like weather, like something the night itself has been holding and finally releases.I know that voice.I have spent five years trying to
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