Book Two - Ch.# 50

“Another scouting party will most likely be deployed into the city tomorrow night,” Clarissa said, a few days later.

After sending the letter, she had told me that we just needed to wait. Apparently, someone would be in touch from the Hidden Moon soon but, for the time being, we were going to be playing defensively. Lying low and acting from the shadows.

This hadn’t stopped Clarissa from sending me on one or two missions already though. Just smaller groups of wolves that had wandered into Lockdale from the Silent Forest pack, trying to find us. Barely worth our attention or fight but still something that needed to be taken care of.

…And I’d done it without question. With Zac’s help to clean up, of course. It was almost as if the two of us were back working together again, only, this time, it wasn’t under my father’s direction.

Nevertheless, it was a role I slipped into naturally, doing what needed to be done.

In my spare time, I had also been practising my ability, just as Myra h