QUICK NOTICE FOR THIS CHAPTER: Read this chapter with caution. There are brief mentions of intense violent abuse that may be triggering for some people. It's not intentional but is a needed element of the overall book.
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A handful of older-looking lycans were bustling around in a cave around a statue of a man with werewolf features... an elder male witch lying in a pool of blood dying... and a female vampire pinned against a cave wall by an unusually strong lycan with strange eyes... a wooden stake ran through her left shoulder and into the cave's wall, his right hand pushing on her chest roughly... just inside the cave entrance.
"We've finally found him! How are we going to get him out of h
