Chapter 95

Quinn

The vision came on suddenly.

One moment, I was still walking through the orchard with Ida, talking to her about her possible mate, laughing along with her when she daydreamed out loud about what it would be like to finally meet him.

The next I wasn’t there anymore.

It was as if someone picked me up and plonked me down in a brand new world. A world I had never seen before. A world that should not have existed.

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I walked down the street to the shelter where I spent so many of my nights in the past, but Haverton was a barren wasteland. The buildings were in ruin. Forlorn, bombed out, burned out, husks. The great city was no more and it was difficult to take it all in, to accept it.

Grey-white ash dimmed the sun's bright light, and floated down from the sky like snow, quickly covering me in a thick blanket of soot and burned up fat.

There were almost no living souls left. Blackened corpses, both human and wolf, littered the sidewalk. The street was like molten lava, still red-hot