POV: Callum Brennan
Location: Prison Gates, then Rookeries
Time: Release Day
The prison gates open at dawn. I walk through them carrying nothing because I own nothing. No money. No clothes beyond the prison jumpsuit they're letting me keep. No identification. No pack status.
Just scars. Trauma. And eighteen months of survival experience.
The guard at the gate hands me a document. "Permanent packless status. Don't return to pack territory. Don't approach pack members. Don't attempt to rejoin any pack. You're exiled for life. Understand?"
"I understand."
"Good. Get out."
I walk away from the Cage. From eighteen months of hell. From silver poisoning and fighting pits and watching wolves die. I'm free.
Except I'm not free. I'm packless. And packless wolves have no freedom in supernatu
