I woke to screaming.
Not from our territory. From everywhere. Every pack. Every wolf. Every living thing connected to the old bloodlines was screaming.
Kade bolted upright. “Do you hear that?”
“Yes. What is it?”
“I do not know. But it sounds like death.”
We ran outside. The sky was wrong. Not dark. Not light. Just grey. Like reality itself was dying. Fading into nothing.
Our pack was gathered in the courtyard. All of them looked up at the sky with terror in their eyes.
“What is happening?” Sera asked. “What is that?”
“I do not know,” I said. But I did know. Somewhere deep inside, where the seal used to be, I felt recognition. Felt ancient memory stirring. “It is the First Dark. The thing that came before the Voids. The original hunger.”
“But we killed the Voids. We ended the threa
