Mother hollered in anger and knocked Danny back down to all fours. A grin spread across her face as she unleashed another wave to assert her dominance. But it never reached Danny. The brief moment she broke through Mother's spell was enough to break her grip on Aspen. Long enough for his Alpha to react, and he wasn’t one to back down from a challenge. I could feel it, feel him. The magic that had threatened to take my life earlier today, was bypassing me as it ran straight to the most dominant wolf in its vicinity.
Mother's grip lessened as Aspen's Alpha challenged her directly, and I could see the panic on her face. Instead of fighting one wolf, she was now fighting three of us in an invisible battle of spirits. With Aspen’s Alpha on our side, her grip over us quickly slipped.
She spat
