The Witch And The Alpha
"They are the spirits of the women your pack threw into the black pools during the raids, and they’ve spent the last twenty years waiting for a Rauvenhollow wolf to come back so they can pull him down into the silt and keep him there forever."
"I’m not afraid of ghosts, and I’ve fought worse things than spirits in the tunnels beneath my own home," I said, trying to sound more confident than I felt while the entity in my chest let out a low, mocking thrum of agreement.
"You should be afraid, because they don't hunt your flesh, they hunt your guilt, and you have enough of that to sink a fleet of ships, boy," she replied, and she turned back to Ilyra with a look of pity. "If you take him there,