Reivas

Previously

…Mindaugas looked at his hands. "I'm free," he said. "Really free." Jonas leaned on me, breathing hard. "The signal is gone. The wolves will go back to being just wolves." "And the nightmare?" I asked. "Ended." Eliza picked up the cat, which had been waiting under a bush. She held it close. "Can we go home now, Mama?" I looked at the children around me. My son. My daughter. And the boy who had been a wolf. They were alive. They were safe. "Yes," I said. "Let's go home." But as we turned to walk east, toward the village, I heard a sound. Faint, from far away. A howl. Not a wolf. Something else.