#Chapter 117: Aftermath

Olivia POV I had certainly known fear and sorrow before, but nothing in my life before had brought about the devastation I knew as we walked the battlefield to find the wounded and count the dead. Elroy, of course, had wanted to take on the task himself. The medics had forbidden it, and one slipped him something to put him to sleep. Beta Elliot had wanted to forbid me as well, but I just looked at him until he stepped aside and then accompanied me as I walked outside. Given Elroy’s mercy, the carnage could have been worse, but somehow that made nothing better as we looked out over the field. So many dead wolves. So many lives lost for nothing. I saw a medic shaking his head over a fallen wolf breathing her last, and without thought I transformed into the silver wolf to call down the power of the Goddess to heal her enough that she would live. Everyone watched, transfixed, as the silver light in my fur wrapped around her. In a second, it was gone, but then the wolf was breat