Reunited

The news flowed through the pack. The quarantine was lifted. Not because the pack was well, but because there was no point. Blighted meat had been circulating unchecked through the wolves. They would catch it or not, and no quarantine was going to save them.

She found herself heading to the border of the Col and the Woods. She wondered who would take advantage of the lift and come back to the homes or people they had abandoned to stay in the woods. The wolves had been separated for some time. She hadn’t heard from the one person in this pack she knew (other than Oleander) since she had seen him by chance at the border. She hadn’t heard of any deaths…


"Vesper"