SERA
The compound had finally been quiet. It took longer than usual with over three hundred wolves instead of one hundred and fifty, the sounds of settling took too long to fade into the kind of silence that meant everyone had found somewhere to sleep. I'd stayed on the wall with Kade until the last fire burned out and the last voices dropped to murmurs, watching the transformation of his carefully organized fortress turn into something messier and more alive.
"Come on," Kade said eventually, standing and offering me his hand. "You've been on your feet since morning."
I let him pull me up and we went down the wall together, his hand still holding mine in that easy way that had become normal somewhere between yesterday and today. The compound looked really different at night with so many
