I didn’t doubt that I just wanted to know what happened and how these things went and how to deal with it if it went sideways.

“We’re patrolling the first few hours on foot tonight”. Rocco spoke.

He had been silent the full walk into the forest.

“Foot?”. Alanna made a face. “That makes no sense and-…”. She paused. “Right so we’ll shift around 4?”.

I knew this was because of me. I was already aware that we patrolled in wolf form. What other reasons could they have to ...