We brought them home when we were sure our pack had gone to sleep, except the guards who we placed at the entrance routes with strict orders to keep a watch on the clan till we return from our adventure.
We didn’t ease them of the duty we assigned to them, rather, we reassigned them on a much better duty.
They were to climb the trees, transform on the tree branches and watch the landscape for suspicious movements, while we took the prisoners to the pack house.
The pack house was swallowed in dead silence when we arrived. I could sense the news of an oncoming war has spread around the pack house and beyond it, so, everyone must have decided to adopt absolute silence as a way of keeping them concealed in the night.
“To the blacksmith’s crib.” I said, ushering them to follow my lead, and
