(kealen)
The fire started in the storage building at the back of the east compound.
I smelled it before anyone called it in — something sharp cutting through the afternoon, not the fireplace kind of wood smoke but the wrong kind, the kind meant something was burning that wasn't supposed to be. I was in the middle of a review meeting with Sora and Cael when my wolf went alert.
"Something's burning," I said.
Sora was already reaching for her phone.
The call came in thirty seconds later. Storage building, east side, secondary structure — not the main house, not the living quarters. But there were three families in the adjacent cottages that shared the east courtyard, and the wind was coming from the southwest.
I was on my feet before Cael finished the sentence.
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