Ari's POV
Over the Blood Pact Pack, the full moon was slowly rising, red in the sick fog. I had been in the training hall, where I was curing a young warrior, whose fever was too high. Drips of sweat were falling down my neck, and my hands were aching with their attempt to squeeze the dark veins beneath his flesh. There was some coughing and low crying, but no more; then there came a great crash of sound which shook the room.
The guards were screaming in panorama: Alpha is shifting! Get back! Move!"
My heart was hammering. Lucius had all the week been mad. His wolf was too near the surface, too wild, too furious. Tonight was worse. I could sense the aura of his wave of anger and wrath beating against the walls. The patients went shaking, their ears closed in another roar tore through th
