When the Alpha Howls
It vibrated through my bones, turning my skin to gooseflesh and my stomach to stone.
“Okay,” I whispered, like the word could anchor me. “Okay, Nora. You’re not… you’re not doing anything stupid.”
My body disagreed. My feet moved anyway. I stepped onto the porch, barefoot because I’d forgotten my own common sense in the same place I’d left my last shred of certainty. The boards groaned under me. The sound felt enormous.
I stood very still and listened. Wind sifted through branches. Something small, rabbit, squirrel, scratched through dead leaves. Far off, an owl called once, a single syllable of night.
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