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Despite all the obstacles I foresaw, there was ree the urge to point out the ht noas not the tiy anyway That would coeneral way forward

The next leader who stepped forward--of the Kaelin clan--suggested an all-out, physical attack All of us would gather and launch into the base at once, swar the on fire If all of us launched at once, ould not be as easily put out as fire However, this idea would result in a staggering number of casualties I had seen those mutants they kept with my own eyes A as siest wolf be a threat, when thea olf could do in the face of such a creature was run

Next caestion His I found to be the h I could not quite see hoould ever work He suggested that we contrive a way to bait a large nu the base more empty and vulnerable to an attack I was not the only one who found this idea interesting, but when asked, the Cuthral leader could not provide any details regarding hoould do it He said that ould need to discuss it further aestions that followed his were mostly repeats of the first three, and those that weren’t went gradually downhill in quality, until it got to the point where some ideas became so far-fetched that I wondered whether so forward ideas simply to be contrary to the others

Once every tribe had finished putting forward their suggestions, it was tiius clai the hunters into a trap

Sergius then announced that we all had another half an hour to think everything over before deciding which route to vote for deeper discussion When it ca And I was not alone in this The majority of the hall elected to discuss this route It was hardly a surprise that the Kaelins’ suggestion of a brute-force attack was the least popular; everyone knew that it would lead to an unthinkable a as our topic of exploration As conversation broke out in the hall again, so did the bickering Nobody could agree on any particular way of going about it, and to estions seeain descended into chaos, with so to arch their backs and snarl at the differences of opinion, Dane’s voice boomed out around the hall, so loud and pervasive that it stunned everyone into silence

"We already have a hunter in our midst! Why don’t we just ask her?"

Victoria’s breath hitched My eyes froze on thedirectly up at our balcony Directly up at her I wasn’t even sure how he knew that ere up here Fro eye, he must’ve seen us enter the stairwell

Every other wolf in the hall followed Dane’s gaze, all of the down at the How dare he I had already explained countless tihout our journey to various wolves who had asked about Victoria that she was not a hunter, and that she had no affiliation with them whatsoever other than the fact that she was a human I’d told thereed with everything that the hunters stood for Still, she had received suspicious glares from them, which had been yet another reason why I had been anxious to keep her up in the trees at night and distance ourselves fro up the storht so hard to quell

Victoria took a step back, the blood draining from her face

"She is not a hunter!" I bellowed down

"How do you know she is not one?" Dane asked, finally having the courage to look at htthat I was not down there with hiht not have been able to restrainat his throat

"An absurd question," I shot back down "Insuch a wild accusation, the onus is on you to prove that she is one" I tore my eyes away from Dane, and addressed the rest of the assehn lives in The Shade Her parents are supernaturals, as are all of her family"

I couldn’t stand the doubt in the wolves’ eyes--doubt instilled by Dane’s injurious state next to hiness on her face I was sure that she had so down at the wolves until finally, they turned away Sergius drew their attention back to hi, "I fully believe that rateful to hihts away from the human and return to the matter at hand Let us resuuments Remember, no matter what differences exist between us, we are all in this together"

I caught Brucella scowling at her husband for his proe of subject I was just relieved that the wolves were no longer glaring up at Victoria For several tenseup to her in a rage I , but I wouldn’t last five minutes if this croashed over us I would be ripped to shreds and so would Victoria… if Dane didn’t have so else in mind for her first