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afford to stay here any longer. I’ll head for the
nearest town to find a way to contact Justice Ambervane. He needs to know about
the existence of your pack.”
    “Have you any idea what you look like? You’re naked and have a crazed
look about you. Any human who catches sight of you will shoot you on sight. I
would.” Her grin held a tinge of the imagined pleasure of doing just that.
    Drew ran his hand over his scraggly beard. Yeah, he probably looked like
Grizzly Adams.
    “Rest and get cleaned up tonight. We’ll steal you some clothes from the
camp further down the mountain in the morning. You can head for Laststop after
the majority of the weres we’ve been avoiding leave the canyon. We can avoid
running into them once we know which direction they’re heading.”
    Drew froze. There was only one reason a group of wolves left their den en
masse . A hunt.
    He grabbed her by the shoulders and forced her to face him. “They’re
hunting you, aren’t they?” Drew cupped her jaw and raised her face to read her
expression.
    Sabine looked fiercely up at him. “Yes, but I don’t want Balthazar to
know how bad it is. We’ve become complacent in our isolation. We raced the
woods as we pleased before they came. Maybe we weren’t as judicious about
masking our presence as we should have been. It’s my fault we’re in danger. I
have to fix it.” She jerked her chin out of his grip and turned to leave, her
body stiff from having to admit her mistake out loud.
    Drew rested his hand on her tense shoulder. “Ahhh, now I get it. You
think you screwed up, so you’re going to sacrifice yourself to make amends.”
    “Every morning I worry that day will be the day they’ll stumble across
us. In my head, I know they won’t find the den. The combined efforts of the
women should keep us hidden until we need to leave.” Anguish flitted across her
face. “You wouldn’t understand. It’s my responsibility to keep us safe. I
failed them.”
    Yeah, he understood, only too well. It was a hell of a burden Sabine
shouldered. He cringed at the naïveté of this small she-wolf, who, in all
earnestness, believed she’d be able to hide from the rabid pack indefinitely.
    Getting the women away from here was more urgent than he thought. It
didn’t take much of a leap to imagine how the Silverwolves’ stealth skills
could give the Redmavens some badly needed leverage. The Lunedares and
Ambervanes were at the top of their shit list, and they’d be crawling up their
butts if they weren’t careful.
    “What do you want more than anything, Sabine?” Drew asked her the
same question she’d asked him to get her attention.
    Her head jerked up. “My family safety, of course. They are everything.”
    “Then listen to me very carefully. The weres you’ve cleverly managed to
evade so far are not ordinary wolves. They were bred for strength, cunning,
viciousness. The stench you smell is from the drugs they’ve been poisoned with
to make them killers. You don’t want to know what they’ll do to the women of
your family if they get their hands on them. If you want to save your pack,
it’s time to act. You need to be far away from here as possible. You say
they’ve taken human women. If word spreads that shape-shifting beasts are
roaming the forest, the old myths will be remembered. It’ll start as a whisper
at first. It will feed fears, and the murmurs will grow into a roar man can’t
ignore. They’ll start to hunt us again. If you thought it was bad for our race
in the past, it will be worse this time around. With the weaponry they have at
their disposal now, we’ll be slaughtered. We’re calling for help tonight. Now,
point me in the direction of the nearest town.”
    Drew watched the color leach from her face. For once, she didn’t
prevaricate. “Will any communication device do?”
    Drew nodded. “It would be a step in the right direction.”
    “There is an unmanned ranger station due east of here. It will take no
time at