The Alpha's Refusal
"If you can't stay in form, you’re just a waste of space. Get up, or I’ll use your hide for a rug!"
Nearby, an older wolf, huge and battle-scarred, tried to drop his harness to help the boy, but he was met with a spear-butt to the snout. He, too, began to shimmer, his form failing him as the exhaustion took hold. One by one, the "beasts of burden" were reverting to broken, half-starved humans, huddled in the freezing filth, their spirits extinguished by the sheer cruelty of it.
Up on the wooden catwalk, overlooking the misery like a bored god, stood Morde.
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