Axel's POV
The night was a mess of howls, smoke, and chaos. I'd seen some wild stuff in my time, but this? This took the cake.
"Keep it tight!" I yelled to the wolves around me. "Don't let 'em through!"
We were holding the line at the edge of camp, facing off against wave after wave of those freaky cyborg wolves. Yeah, you heard that right. Cyborg. Wolves. What a time to be alive, huh?
Jake, a scrawny kid from the River Pack, stumbled next to me. I caught him before he fell.
"You good, kid?" I asked, my eyes still on the treeline.
He nodded, panting. "Yeah, just... there's so many of them."
"Tell me about it," I muttered. "But we've got this. Right?"
A chorus of tired but determined "Yeah"s answered me. Huh. Who'd have thought I'd be fighting side by side with wolves I couldn't sta
