With her eyes wide, Madalynn shouted, “Attack!” with her human voice as she shifted into her wolf, leaping into the air to lead the charge from behind us, her shout morphing into a howl.

Behar’s troops were trained to follow Madalynn’s commands as well, so even though Ethan was still on top of Behar, when she gave the order, the line in front of us moved forward as well. At that moment, many of the children were trapped between the lines of wolves led by Behar because they’d been in ...