Mark by Destiny.
The air stank of iron and smoke as fire licked the edges of the battlefield, swallowing the forest whole.
Mothers howled for their young, but in the chaos, even children were abandoned. Small shapes stumbled in the dirt, crying, reaching out for hands that never came. Some were trampled beneath heavier paws, forgotten as warriors fled for their own lives.
Alpha commands shattered in the storm of fear, drowned beneath the victorious roar of the rival pack. The conquered scattered like prey, their pride stripped away, their future burning with the forest. Chains rattled in the hands of their captors,slaves to be dragged into the night, trophies of another war claimed.