Jake
There was no way I could stay put in the small apartment that doubled as a safe house and find the answers I needed. While the place was well stocked with supplies, it was only good for hiding out. I waited until nightfall to slip from the apartment, checking the street before leaving the building. The streets were eerily quiet, with only a handful of Lunar Shadow wolves patrolling the main square. The woman who had been locked in the pillory earlier was gone, and I wondered what they had done with her.
“You there!” A voice called from behind me. “Where do you think you’re going? There’s a curfew.”
I froze in place, my mind working to come up with any reason to be outside during a curfew I hadn’t known existed. The wolf closed the distance between us, tur
