This moment Tyren and I burst forward through the thick underbrush, the forest seemed to shift around us, closing in, narrowing, stalking. Every step felt like trespassing into something ancient, something furious.

My lungs burned as branches whipped at my arms. The growl behind us rolled like thunder, vibrating through the earth and into my bones. I’d never heard anything like it. Not rogue. Not a wolf. Not human.

Something else.

Something that didn’t belong to our world.

“Don’t look ...