Markus' POV
The attack was just a test. A group of 5 vampires had feinted then withdrawn during the same night. The target was a small cluster of werewolf homes slightly away from the nearest human town on the perimeter of our territory. They just wanted to see how fast the pack's response time was. How tight our security was.
Luckily, this time, nobody had gotten hurt, though a young werewolf had been extremely frightened. But the warriors' response time had been on the slow side and I knew there would be another attempt. Years of peace had made us too complacent.
We increase the patrol frequency and set a roster for continual check-ins via mind-link. Nobody goes out of range on their own.
Roger that.
Still, even though things hadn't come to any fighting, I ended up staying at the
