"Darren told them you knew what was in the killing fields," Nyra pointed out. "No, I merely said that ghosts could be heard whispering and keening within the killing fields. I also said they damned screamed for help, and yet it fell on deaf ears. I had no idea what was in the ground, only that Harold forbid the pack from entering that section of the mountain, and I enforced his laws. Those fields have been called the killing fields since I was a child, and every child inside the lodge and compound knows it by that name as well. It is where the battles took place when neighboring packs came to challenge us for the mountain. We just stopped calling it by that name openly for fear it would bring new challengers back to our doorstep. There is pepper inside the shipping containers, which preven
