Chapter 40 Echoes Of The Coming Storm

The Outsider Pack had kept its word. Though their Alpha Garrick still wore distrust like armor, he reluctantly offered five of his fiercest wolves. Each of them towered with battle-worn experience, faces marked with old scars and eyes that had seen too much. As Kaela, Dane, Elira, Eryx, and Elder Tyren gathered their new allies and began their journey back to Ghostwood Forest, the air was heavy with tension and unspoken thoughts. The road back wasn’t easy. The land between Ghostwood and the Outsider territory was treacherous and exposed. Dusk had already bled across the sky, and travel became a game of silence and instinct. They made camp beneath a gnarled canopy of black pine, surrounded by mist and the faint howls of distant wolves.