Chapter Thirty Five

DPOV

Songs: Un4gvn by Ruby Beardman ft. Two Beards

The council room reeked of anxiety. I could feel it pouring out of all the attendees seated around the circular table. It wasn't the usual crowd that used to attend when Victor ran them, but they had become somewhat familiar to me. Unfortunately, these meetings had also become about as useful as tits on a bull.

"Any news from Inferion," I turned to ask Tasha.

"No. I'm afraid not," she solemnly shook her head. "We sent another raven this morning but one of the scouts saw it shot down before it even made it past the pines."

"Damnit," I huffed under my breath. We had been trying to get word out to our allies for weeks but to no avail. The humans had yet to wage a serious attack again, other than a few attempted spurts to test our weaknesses, but many of them had set up stations around our perimeters and were blocking the way in or out. We tried sending messages in the dead of night as well, but the humans were diligent and always seemed