Zebriks POV
After catching the team up to speed, I retired for the evening. I couldn't get through to Atrous, and I needed him on board for tomorrow’s mission. He had never acted this way before—never one to throw up a block. And that whimper at seeing the black wolf? Maybe he was just tired. The work we do is taxing on the psyche, but this isn’t even one of those missions—no one is getting hurt. Is he just going missing in action because this isn’t a hunt? If that’s the case, then why the emotion at the picture?
Finally, after fighting this never-ending circle of questions, I decided to fall back on my go-to: stop overthinking and just get it over with. The sooner we finish, the sooner I can put all these questions behind me. I make issues go away—that’s my job, nothing more. I needed t
