Lyralei realized something with absolute certainty as she watched the chaos unfold around her and it hit her like a punch to the gut. She was…. f****d. These f*****g shadow wolf monsters were focused on her and her only, which made absolutely no sense but was terrifyingly obvious. What in the actual f**k? When the first wolf had attacked, she’d felt it immediately, that same sensation of being watched by something ancient and hungry that she’d felt earlier near the alleged portal. She could feel that presence in these creatures now, like invisible threads connecting them all back to that darkness that had tried to take her in that space between death and life. That meant one thing and she knew it in her bones, that being was somehow connected to these wolves and she could sense its

