Before the day could break, while the clouds were still dark early in the morning with the songs of the early morning birds chirping in the woods, a convoy of seven set out for the city of Portland on a rescue mission. Birdie the queen was part of the rescue crew. Percy and his deputies went along too. They spent the night in Birdie’s pack because Percy insisted that he would not be taking his eyes off Marcus until the shifters were rescued.
The team was armed to the teeth with guns, knives and steel pipes. Sheriff Percy was quite sure that some of these guns were not legally registered and he was not too pleased to be letting a group of armed shifters whose orders ‘were shoot to kill if need be’ into his territory. But he did not have much of a say in this situation. It was shifter firs
