The sun crested the horizon and the birds in the trees ignored us enough to greet the day. My ears twitched as I did my best to filter them out. We had traveled the rest of the night and Mana’s scent was growing stronger in my nostrils, his scent and that of another. There had been no blood, yet at least. I wouldn’t be able to keep going forever, Morgan would get control and I would recede into the background again, and soon. Cya’s bond still thrummed with anger, betrayal, worry, but from what I could tell he hadn’t had any fights. So just as I had assumed, perhaps the information fed to him had been false. I turned to observe the two that still followed. Hades was at my flank with his head downward. From his bond, I could tell he still felt shame at being rescued by Koda. Males could ge