If I cross the Line

Having sent the kids and the injured ahead with Gilgamesh and Modesty to scope out the Island and the beaches they would soon be reclaiming as their own, Deluge was hanging back with a few others, just in case any stragglers arrived... though she didn't like the tone of that howl...

The smell of Syndicate curled her muzzle, as she stalked closer, mercurial eyes falling on Morwenna and the crumpled heap beside her. She wouldn't jump to conclusions, not like her mother might, but she knew a dead body when she saw one too. She fought back the bile that rose in her throat.

Breathe in through your nose, and out through your mouth. "What. Happened."

"speech"