NEVA POV
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The east wall did not come down.
I want to be clear about that, because the way my heart was conducting itself in my chest suggested imminent structural collapse and I would like the record to reflect that I held it together.
What came through the wall was a wolf.
Not shifted — a man, moving with the particular velocity of someone who had been thrown rather than run. He hit the door of the training yard from the outside, the door swung inward, and he landed on the floor at our feet with the specific gracelessness of someone who had not chosen to arrive this way.
Behind him, through the open door, the dark outside.
And Ziko's voice: "Found one."
Ryke stepped over the man on the floor — who was conscious, unhappily, and trying to remember which direction was up — and loo
