Damien I cautioned everyone not to shift. There was no way we would be able to negotiate if we showed up in wolf form. I just had to hope we met them before they themselves had. We had cleared the ridge and made it almost another hundred yards when I heard a snap and looked down toward the ravine which revealed Felix’s Army. They all sat watching Felix pace and drink from a bottle of whiskey. His warriors looked small and weak. Uncommonly so, as if they were malnourished. Their faces held defeat already. Clara may be right. Maybe they really will abandon their alpha. “They are all in the ravine, organized but not yet heading this way. I’m on the northeast edge of it. Close in here, but Max and Benjamin, keep your outlying teams on the east and west side. No one reveal yourselves until I

