HUMAN COURAGE AND HYBRID HOPE
Rylan's POV
I placed myself at the entrance of the medical tent. Rifle ready. Knife strapped to my belt. Body already hurting from wounds I’d received. The human body that didn’t recover quickly. Couldn't regenerate. Could do nothing except bleed and hurt and die.
But I didn't need healing. Just needed to stand. Just needed to fight. Just refused to budge.
Ash appeared beside me. Bleeding from a dozen cuts. Five other wolves with him. All wounded. All exhausted. All standing anyway.
“You don’t have to do this,” I told him.
"Yes we do. That's your family in there. That's our Luna. Our future." Ash checked his weapons. "Besides. Where else would we be?"
We formed a defensive line. Seven fighters against an army. Impossible odds. Certain death. Perfect cla
