LYSSARA
Six Shadow wolves in a corridor outside my daughter's room and none of them were attacking and all of them were waiting and the waiting was the most disorienting thing about the situation because I had prepared for attack and I had prepared for threat and I had not prepared for the specific quality of something ancient performing a formal recognition posture in a pack house corridor and saying we have been waiting for you in a voice that had not been used for a very long time.
‘’Waiting for what?’’
The Shadow wolf at the front of the formation said. ‘’It has been trying to reach her since the morning she was born, and someone has been between us and her every time we approached, and we have been following that someone's directions because the directions felt like instructions, a
