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tranquilizer every chance they
had, especially after they found out that it could kill us faster
than any wound if they had a big enough dose. But that wouldn’t
help them today.
    Huffing , I laid down on the
grass, with my eyes still on them. The man fired, and the dart hit
the invisible wall surrounding our property. If I were in human
form I would be smiling. As a wolf, I only showed my teeth to the
men, and they went away. Yes,
do that. You won’t be able to get into the compound,
anyway.
    I waited a
couple of minutes anyway. Better safe than sorry. But the proximity
alarm didn’t sound again, which meant we were safe, unless they had
figured a way to get invisible and fly into our lands. And they
would still hit the wards. Huffing again,
I got up and started walking the perimeter. That was my last round,
and then one of the cats would be on perimeter duty.
    There, behind the fences and the witches’
wards, we were safe. I didn’t know for how long, but for now people
acted as if nothing had changed. It was as if we were living inside
a bubble, in a world completely different from what was shown on
the television.
    Out there, it was war. The list of missing
Otherworld people was growing scarily fast, and so was the list of
the ones we knew had been captured. Those who hadn’t made it to the
compounds on time were being picked one by one. Not even humans
were safe – many of the captured ones weren’t from the Otherworld.
But still, we had orders to stand by.
    I sat on
the porch of Ivan’s house, my gaze lost
in the distance. With each new information we received I got more
and more scared of what was to come. Humanity had made their move,
but apparently they had forgotten that, when the time came, it
would be our turn to act.
    And they would pay for each drop of
blood.

9. Camila
    Eight months
later .
    The soft
steps of someone coming up the stairs would be inaudible even for
me, usually. But I was on the edge and it
was 2a.m. On Thursday, that meant there were almost no sounds from
the city or from the rest of the building.
    It had been
too long since I had slept a full night. My nerves wouldn’t let me.
In the last three months I had the same nightmare again and again:
people coming into the building, bringing down the apartment’s door
and taking me to the cave. At any moment now I would be
caught.
    The steps
stopped in front of the apartment’s door. All my muscles
contracted, while two different sets of instincts fought for
control inside me. Fight or flight? My wolf was agitated,
especially after so long without being able to run or hunt, and her
first instinct was always to attack. But I needed to think, I
needed to measure my actions.
    The person moved, her clothes making a soft
sound. A second later I felt the power filling my apartment. It
wasn’t much, only what I needed to recognize her.
    Dara.
    And there was only one possible reason for
that visit. I got up and changed my clothes quickly, taking my twin
knives and slipping them into the sheaths sewn into my boots. With
near silent steps, I left the bedroom, glancing at the closed door
of Luiz’s bedroom. I could wake him up and warn him about where I
was going and what was about to happen, but it would be better if I
didn’t. If he didn’t know anything they would have nothing to use
against him.
    Dara had an
impatient expression on her face when I opened the door. In
silence, I locked the door behind me before following her. As
silently as possible, we left the building. A witch – no, a mage –
was waiting for us on the street, and I felt his power surrounding
us. Probably something to hide use from anyone who might be looking
from the windows or passing on the street.
    Still in silence, we walked through the
deserted streets. You had to be crazy to be outside after midnight,
as the hunters would arrest anyone. We walked for almost an hour
until they stopped in front of a house. It seemed ordinary, with
one story and walls stained by many