ANOKAI
The world shattered in a moment. One moment the marketplace was whistling with life, merchants shouting out their prices, children laughing, the warm scent of baked bread mingling with spiced meat.
The next second, there was a scream, and it cut the air with its sharpness, and then there was the sound of ripping flesh.
Then chaos. Pure, unbridled chaos. Human beings flew about like frightened birds, leaving their baskets and goods behind. One woman crumbled to the ground, eyes wild and arms bleeding out.
Behind her, a big grey wolf was tearing up a merchant's stall, its muzzle stained with the blood of….
I closed my eyes tightly, swallowing hard. I didn’t even want to know whose blood it was.
"My lady!" Rissa’s shrill voice broke through my shock, her hand on my arm. "We need
