::Are we ready?:: Tonio asked, mind to mind, when his sensitive hearing picked up the sound of an approaching vehicle. He got affirmative replies from each of the others.
Reni and Felan, the latter in his wolf form, sat with apparent casualness on the steps leading up to the cabin’s front door. Bay remained inside; armed with two of the high-powered pistols they kept at the cabin for such occasions. Tonio was well-hidden in the branches of a tree to the right of the cabin. From his vantage point he could see half a mile down to the end of the lane.
He watched as a car pulled off the paved road onto the lane leading to the cabin and came to a stop. Four men got out, each one carrying a rifle or pistol. At a signal from one of them, they spread out into the trees on either side of the lane
