The Lost Pack
Parker walks a fraction behind us, keeping pace despite the drained heaviness still dragging him down.
Ronnie keeps everyone organised, gently urging slower groups forward, checking for stragglers, guiding the more vulnerable closer so they’re protected by the inner circle. Everyone is doing their job. Doing their best. But anxiety still clenches my chest.
A woman ahead, Marcy, one of the mated females around my age, stumbles slightly when her daughter, barely six, clings too tightly to her leg. The girl is crying silently, eyes glassy and unfocused, the way Jaxon looked when Ryder walked through the door earlier. Before I can think, my feet are moving.
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