We saw the smoke before we reached the academy. Black columns rising against the night sky, lit from below by flames that shouldn't exist.

"They're already inside," Darius said. His wolf was in control now, fully shifted and running flat out. Through the bond, I felt his terror mixing with mine.

We'd been gone less than three hours. Three hours was all it took for everything to fall apart.

The gates were breached when we arrived. Not broken, opened from the inside. One of the remaining spies ...