Lachlan
Smoke filled the garden as another even closer sounded. I could now taste the smoke in the air, tainted with the smell of blood and death.
Alyssa’s eyes remained open but the light was gone. Tears fell from my eyes as I surveyed the scene. Mum looked to be on the verge of passing out and the wisps of grey smoke that had been surrounding her in wisps floated towards me.
I could hear fighting in the packhouse now and I readied myself to defend Mum. I still had multiple wounds, ones I hadn’t even felt appearing but they were healing faster now, but still more slowly than usual.
It was as though the attacking wolves claws were laced with something to slow our healing down as now I thought about it, we had been sustaining much more injuries than expected and healing slowly.
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