Chapter 095
SEBASTIAN
The suggestion made me feel sick. He was telling me to hide whilst other children were taken and transformed. To save myself by sacrificing others.
But I understood why he was saying it. Down here, in this terrible place, survival meant making impossible choices.
"How many of you are in here?" I asked, looking around at all the young wolves scattered across the chamber.
"Used to be close to a hundred," the boy replied. "But they've been taking twenty a day for almost a week now. We're down to maybe forty left."
Forty children out of what had probably been a hundred or more, which meant sixty young wolves had already been turned into nightwalkers.
The ritual was happening right now. And we were running out of time.
Panic flared in my chest again, hot and despe
