Chapter 37

The final stand

Sheila's POV:

The air was thick with strain as we accumulated on the edges of Rasha's fortification. Our partnered packs, once separated, presently stood joined together. People and werewolves the same, we were prepared to make our last push.

Kloss remained next to me, his eyes mirroring the assurance I felt. "This is all there is to it," he said delicately. "All that we've battled for boils down to this second."

I gestured, grasping the tuft of Farkas' fur I'd kept as a sign of his penance. "For Farkas," I murmured. "For us all."

As the sun set, creating long shaded areas across the combat zone, I tended to our powers. "Today, we battle for ourselves, however for the eventual fate of all wolfkind. Rasha and the Umbra Wolf compromise all that we hold dear. Yet, together, we are more grounded than any obscurity!"

A tune of wails and cheers ejected from our partners. The sound was stunning, a call to war that appeared to shake the very earth.

Yet, our excitement was flee