Chapter Nineteen Sage’s POV I went up there to think. This is my story and I am sticking to it. The roof was flat at the back section, a maintenance walkway running the width of the building, and it faced north over the compound yard and the tree line and beyond the tree line the dark shape of the mountain against the moonlit sky. I had been up there for twenty minutes before I admitted to myself that I had not come up here to think. The roof was the only place in the compound that felt like the kind of space I needed, open and cold and without walls pressing in from four directions. My wolf was peaceful up here. She had been peaceful since arriving in the compound, which was its own problem. She felt at home here, the mountain at our backs. The valley below. The smell of the old g

