His Rejected Luna, His Hidden Son
So I carried him the way you carry something broken and precious, both arms locked under him, my spine screaming, running through the dark with the hole in my wolf throbbing where the light had gone out.
"Junction ahead." Rowan's voice, thin through the earpiece Kael had jammed in my ear, a traitor turned lifeline whispering from inside the enemy's command tent. "He's flooded the altar branch — that's where he expects you. The east branch runs clear to the old quarry past the valley. Take the east. Take the east, Aurora."
"Soldiers behind us," Kael said. He didn't sound winded. He sounded like a blade being drawn. "A lot of them."