Chapter 206

• Dawn
• The cold wind from the mountain moves in across my skin and bites down at me, causing me to shiver despite wolves never really feeling the cold. My heart is pounding, my nerves taut, and my head in chaos as I stand on the boundary and stare into the darkness awaiting the sun to start to show hints of rising. The eerie silence despite rows and rows of assembled wolves unnerves me. Leyanne and Meadow, to my right, Carmen, and Sierra, to my left, stand solidly still, waiting. We’re all just waiting.
• Tension is high, the stillness is painful, and the quiet is deafening. I’ve never been more scared, and it’s not just because we are at the dawn of the first war battle of my life, as if that wasn’t bad enough. Our enemies are our loved ones, and death blows will be dealt today to change everything in our world forever. No matter what side wins, we all lose the ones we care about most.