"Where do we go from here?" Ethan asked, his voice low as he looked out over the camp that was slowly settling. The survivors were still shaken, and the night around us felt heavier than usual.

"We need to place our pack out of harm's way. That's the first thing we do," I replied, determined not to waste any time. The safety of our people came first, above anything else. We had already been through too much. The trauma from what they had just endured would take time to heal, but at ...