A MEETING AT THE GREAT HALL

When Derek and Curtis got to the pack, everywhere was deserted. Darting their eyes around as they walked across some houses, they couldn't see a single soul.

"What do you think happened?" Curtis asked, slightly scared for the lives of his pack members, his sister and his mother too.

"I don't know." Derek replied, bewildered too. When he had left in search of Curtis, he had been sure that they were on the winning side of the fight. So what happened after he had left? Where was everyone? Why was everywhere deserted this way?

Getting to the centre of the pack, they saw the heap of burnt bodies of some people.

"Mind link your sister now!" Derek said sharply, while adjusting the girl which laid limp in his hands.

Curtis obliged, without wasting time, mindlinking Maya immediately.

"Maya..." He called, his heart in his mouth, as he still darted his eyes around the pack, very alert.