Chapter 19
The electrified chain-link fence was people-proof, but the barrier hadn’t stopped the surrounding wildlife from coming to call. I wasted half an hour padding around the perimeter, jumping at every snapped stick as I imagined Malachi arriving to pull me off the hunt. But before my followers had time to catch up, I got lucky. A deer trail led right up to the fence...then slid underneath along a foot-deep gully eroded away at the base of the barrier. If an extra-large ungulate could make it through the gap without being electrocuted, then so could the carefully compressed form of my much smaller wolf.
Here’s hoping it’s just as easy to find my way back out, I thought, wriggling on my belly through the dry dirt at the bottom of the depression. Above my head, the fence transitioned
