The defensive perimeter at the western sally port was a wall of armoured shields and volatile wolf friction.Voss slammed his short-blade into its leather sheath, and his single eye tracked the horizon through the iron grates of the guard room window. Outside, the blizzard was swirling in a thick, unnatural circle, which was the atmospheric fallout of Kaela’s active hybrid power grid keeping the visibility down to less than ten feet."The provincial packs have completely halted their retreat," Voss reported, his breath pluming in a thick silver cloud in the unheated room. "Donald is holding the checkpoint, but the minor Alphas can smell the mountain. They know whatever walked out of that steam isn't a Lycan."Kaela sat on the wooden maintenance bench, with her right hand still encased in a sleeve of solid, blue–white ice. Every time the wind whipped through the stone walls, her senses convulsed, picking up a strange, primitive pheromone that didn't belong to any known pack profile. It
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