chapter 41

I could feel Kora restless within me as she whined and I found myself plunged into a new surrounding. I was running, I didn’t recognise where I was running to. I just knew I needed to help them as I ran through the trees before stopping at a small village hidden amongst the forest next to Paddock. The place was set alight, paddocks filled with wolves dying and fighting, we were at war, I hid on the outskirts watching men with pitchforks file out and down a small dirt road, I could hear the cries of children ringing through the night. Everything settles the place falling silent except for agonised howls and crying. It was over. I walk out from my hiding place. The Earth is stained with my pack’s blood, the air thick with the pungent smell of death. The entire village decimated, nothing left, but burning huts and scorched earth as fire took everything in the small village. The night sky filled with the sounds of agonised howls as they lay dying on the battlefield. I look down at the wolf