Chapter 274: Hunting Shadows

XENOIS   "Lumina, reach out to Lynn," I continued. "See if she has any contacts who specialize in light magic or shadow manipulation. We need someone who can help us counter these things."   "What about Lyn?" Ollie asked. "He helped Mom before, right? Could he help again?"   "Maybe," I said, though the thought of asking Zade for more help made me uncomfortable. We'd already imposed on his hospitality for two months. Asking him to send Lyn to help defend our territory felt like admitting we couldn't handle our own problems.    "Let's keep that as a backup option."   "And what are you going to do?" Lumina asked.   "I'm going to call an emergency pack meeting," I said. "We need to put everyone on high alert. Increase patrols, establish watch rotations, make sure no one is traveling alone. If there's a nightwalker in Silver Creek, the whole pack needs to know."   "Won't that cause panic?" Lake asked.   "Probably," I admitted. "But panic is better than being unprepared. These are my people,