In The Shadows

The glowing red eye blinked in the suffocating darkness, freezing the blood in Valeria’s veins. She braced her paws deep into the frosted soil, lowering her center of gravity into a rigid defensive stance. Bellona, her lycan spirit, paced relentlessly behind her eyes. Her wolf never backed down from a fight, but the sheer, crushing weight of the aura bleeding from the shadows made the fur along he