Gabrielle hadn’t been gone for more than ten minutes when a piercing wail split the air. It was beyond painfully loud for me, and the other shifters in the room didn’t seem to like it, either. At least shifter healing would repair whatever hearing damage we accrued.
After a couple repetitions, the siren wound down, and not a moment too soon. I sighed my relief into the silence that settled in the siren’s wake and smiled. “Ah, blessed quiet.”
“Come on, lad,” Alistair said, tapping my arm and standing up from the table. “The whole town will be migrating to the stadium, and we should do the same.”
“Can I come, too?” Vicki asked.
“Of course,” Alistair replied.
Alistair led me and Vicki toward a section of town I hadn’t seen yet. We hadn’t any more than stepped off the curb outside the adm
