Alpha Nox
She could put on this farce in front of our people, but never me.
“You don’t have to do this. No one will blame you if you don’t.”
With inhuman speed, she turned her head. Her hair, now heavily streaked with white, fanned out around her shoulders. Those blacked-out eyes settled on me. “Riley is the one that killed him. Did you know that?”
“I—” My jaw dropped. I’d underestimated the hatred between them. “No, I didn’t.”
Now that the dead wolves were lifeless once more, and our enemies had fled through the forest, those bowing stood from the ground. Small crowds formed as people tended to their wounds. What medics remained flitted from person to person, using their magic to seal wounds and stop