"Will we make it?" Archer asked, lowering his voice.

At the weighted silence, Shay loosened a shuddering hiss that jabbed me with an accusatory finger. We weren't dead yet though. In my pocket, we still had a chance.

I fished the jar out and held it up so everyone could see. "Keep going for as long as you can. When they get too close, we'll meet them with this. Now's the time to see if it works on wolves."

"Get your arrows ready fast," Thomas ...