Chapter 6MalachiThe scream cut through Thornridge like a blade.I was running before I realized my feet had moved.Years of training had erased the need to think.The marketplace blurred around me as we rounded the corner toward the eastern street.Five hybrids stood in the middle of the road.Not hiding.Not fleeing.Waiting.They looked almost human until you truly saw them.Silver wolf eyes.Black veins crawling beneath pale skin.Fangs that had no business belonging to wolves.One smiled.The expression wasn't natural.It was hunger.A frightened woman stumbled backward, clutching a little boy behind her.The hybrid lunged.He never reached them.Nightreaver flashed between them in a streak of black steel.Atlas drove the creature sideways, his shoulder crashing into it with enough force to send them both tumbling across the street.The remaining hybrids scattered.Exactly as we'd feared they would.To overwhelm us.To force us apart.Bastian's eyes swept over all of us.Mine.At
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