AMIRA I lost count of how long I had been fighting, but I knew it was long enough as exhaustion started to creep in. The Dark Ones seemed to have an endless number as they kept pouring into the town. “Just how many are they?” I growled just as I used my claw to tear through one that came for me. “Should we use our powers?” Astrais asked. “If you let me, we may be able to defeat them or most of them” “No, Astrais. We can’t. They are too much. If anyone sees us and takes that information to the rogue king, he will hunt us down and we can’t draw risk to the children” I reminded her. “Then we need to run. We can’t keep fighting because they keep coming” Astrais was right. We couldn’t fight them all off on our own. If it was before, when I had help back at the pack, we could have but now

