CHAPTER 37: ECHOES BENEATH THE CITY
The feeling of wrongness spread slowly.
That was what made it dangerous.
If another sky had split open above Chicago, people would have panicked. If creatures had crawled from the shadows again, wolves and vampires alike would have known where to point their claws. But this was quieter. Thoughts lingered longer than they should. Conversations shifted in strange directions. Tiny disagreements became deeper tensions overnight, as though irritation itself had learned how to grow roots. Kevin noticed it first in the way people looked at each other. Wolves who had fought beside vampires during the war now hesitated before entering shared territory. Human officers who had worked with supernatural councils suddenly questioned whether cooperation had ever be
