KERES POV
*Let the world burn - Chris Grey*
The city thinned around us, buildings giving way to cracked service roads and chain-link fences, warehouses sitting dead and hollow beneath grey afternoon light. This wasn't our side of town. Not the roads we knew. Not the woods near home where we let our wolves loose when the house felt too small and our skins felt too tight. This was opposite territory. Unclaimed, like ours, but wrong in a completely different way. Empty. Forgotten by packs and humans alike.
No man's land.
Perfect.
Of course the bastards took her there. Just where Marcellus told us not to go.
I ran harder.
My lungs burned.
My legs burned.
The wounds on my shoulder had reopened at some point and warm blood ran down my arm, dripping from my fingers with every stride, bu
