CHAPTER 13
AURORAAs we walked back to Hades’s kingdom to turn in for the night, the forest around us became deathly quiet. I hadn’t been able to stop thinking about seeing Mars in that vision—or whatever that was. Yet it made me smile, knowing that he was still here with me.
Even if it was just a part of him.
I inhaled sharply and stopped along with Ares, who scanned the forest cautiously. Branches snapped about fifty meters to the northeast. With the rest of the pack behind us, I closed my eyes and listened for more noise. There had to be an entire pack of creatures lurking in the night for us to find, yet they were slow and didn’t seem that menacing.
Still, before I could stop him, Ares shifted into a wild beast on all fours, his claws digging into the dirt and his golden eyes glowin
