CATRIONA
The morning air was cool, sunlight just beginning to stretch across the pack’s grounds as I walked toward my car. My keys jingled faintly in my hand. Abriel trailed behind me, his fingers curled tightly around Sandra’s hand, his little feet dragging like he wasn’t ready for the short trip to his grandmother’s.
I had just reached for the door handle when the world cracked open.
THUD.
A weight crashed down onto the hood of my car, so heavy and sudden the metal groaned beneath it. I screamed, stumbling back, my keys clattering to the ground.
Sandra gasped sharply behind me, yanking Abriel closer to her chest. My heart raced so violently I thought it would burst through my ribs.
It was a deer.
Or what used to be a deer. Its body sprawled grotesquely across the hood, blood matt
