*Lucas*

And then she was gone.

I clawed my way through Lycaon church members, who had begun to fight again, ripping out throats and crunching bones between my jaws. It was a shame, really, fighting those who weren’t really fighters. But they weren’t laying down arms, either.

The vortex created by the broken staff had disappeared, along with my Sasha.

A Lycaon leaped onto my back and got a mouthful of my shoulder and I howled, though whether it was ...