Chapter 526 Kept Like That (2)

• I felt a deep compulsion to shatter that silence, which had become excruciating. I began softly humming. A song of the old packs. I tried to be as unobtrusive as I could. Barely whispering the sound. The song did its work. Soothing me. Humming gave my worried brain something to concentrate on. Rather than replaying all the ways I couldn’t escape. All the different ways I’d considered were implausible. Yet they kept cycling through my head in an endless loop.
• “What is that?” He asked.
• “A song of the ancients.”