The devastation in Gabaxis was startling. Raul's troops had, indeed, as Bessel said, left the town in utter ruin. The garrison that had stayed behind, was already at work building an ugly fortress upon the scar that had once been a thriving town of peaceful citizens.
But what unsettled Sin the most was that the majority of the soldiers weren't werewolves. Whether it had been too dark or the battle had happened so quickly they hadn't noticed, or Bessel had been so traumatized by what he'd witnessed his brain was addled, he hadn't mentioned the fact that much of the garrison, and presumably the attacking battalion, were vorgrals.
The vorgral race from the far south of old America was made up of warlike tribes that spent most of their time fighting with each other over territory. They wer
