CHAPTER 39
ARES
Everything went dark.
One moment passed, then two, and then I landed with a thud on broken, dry ground. Hundreds of warriors that had been cemented in stone at our pack house stood around us, all speaking in hushed tones and careful not to alert the monstrous creatures lurking in this foggy land.
The beasts looked like wild, savage monsters who had traveled these lands for far too long. Too fat, too tall, too broken, too zombie-like to live on the ground above, on earth, a place I wasn’t sure we’d ever return to.
After Ruffles reunited her babies with Frito, Aurora appeared beside me a moment later, her arm immediately looping around mine. She inched closer to me and bit her lip, trying hard to stop her sobs from breaking through the quietness.
“It’s coming,” a
