I shuddered at the malice in it, looking at the humans on the other side. My father was there, watching me hold Brax’s paling face in my lap, a stupid smug look on his face.
“Are you going to kill them?” I asked, not sure why when I knew the answer.
“Yes.”
I couldn’t even find a reason to argue with him. The humans had come here to fight, to kill. I wasn’t sure how potent a wolfsbane arrow was, but they might yet succeed.
They didn’t care. So why should I?
I lifted my hand. I was not sure how I had made the dome shield around us but I called it back, hoping it was easy as that, my watery eyes meeting my father’s as I drew back my magic.
And then Kai was roaring out, a message of attack to the pack, a promise to the humans.
The second the shield was gone, the wolves attacked,
