The cabin felt smaller with all four of them inside it.
Lucas stood at the center, the ranger's map spread across the table, geological charts pinned to the wall with Selena's old herb clips. Marcus leaned against the fireplace. Bianca sat cross-legged on the floor with the journal in her lap. Levi perched on the windowsill, one leg bouncing with nervous energy.
"Three AM," Lucas said. "Pre-dawn. We shift and move fast through the northern forest. We approach from the east, using the fault-line passages to bypass the primary wards."
"The wards extend underground," Marcus warned. "I felt them. Deep. They'll detect wolf-forms within fifty yards."
"Then we go human for the last fifty yards. We stay in the fault-line passage until we're inside their detection radius, shift back, and breach
