Ashes and Accusations

Kaia's POV

The smoky, freezing pre-dawn air clawed at my lungs with every breath. I knelt in the ash-stained dirt, frantically shoving our few remaining possessions into a frayed canvas sack. Around me, the surviving members of the Tempestclaw pack moved like hollow shells of the proud wolves they had been yesterday. We were a ruined people.

Fires still hissed and popped in the ruins of the lon