CHAPTER 28
AURORAWe sprinted through the forest for hours, on a mission to lose those monstrosities before they killed us. Like earlier, Hound Territory was unusually quiet, but this time, we knew why—because the hounds were gathered on the mountain and preparing for the deadliest war yet.
I didn’t know how much time we had before they attacked—maybe a day, if that.
All I knew was that we had to get home, quickly race through the Luna Ceremony, and complete the stone surgery, so we would have a chance at survival.
As we reached our property, I glanced back one more time and sniffed, trying to catch a whiff of the hounds’ musty stench. Yet it didn’t seem like they had followed us, which made me think that those beasts were waiting for something more, something worse to arrive before the
