CASSIAN

Smoke burned my lungs.

Didn’t matter.

People needed to get out.

“Move!” I barked, shoving another group toward the passage. “Keep going! Don’t stop!”

They stumbled, coughed, panicked, but they listened. 

Good. Guess I’m a natural at leading.

“You would gloat at a moment like this,” my wolf, Ares said.

“Gotta keep morale up somehow,” I shot back, ducking as debris cracked overhead.

“Just focus,” Ares shot ...