Ebony finally got away from her parents and went in search of Benedict. She worried for the better part of an hour about him. “Hey, I just wanted to find you and see how you’re doing after that interrogation from Ran. Are you okay?” She caught him out by the entrance to one trail. He was working on chopping some more wood. He put the axe into the log they were using to chop the wood on before he turned around and glared at her. “I don’t want to talk. Come here.” Ebony watched his hands go to his pants and open them. “Kneel honey. You need to make it up to me to tell everyone what I told you in confidence.” He grabbed her hair and pushed her to her knees. His shaft was now outside of his pants as they slipped to catch around his knees. Benedict leaved against a tree and pulled her face toward his straining shaft. “Suck it. I want to lose myself in that hot mouth of yours. I want to blow down your throat.” Ebony gasped at his crude words, and he took the ad

“Okay, so here we go. With the first groups out exploring and looking for information. A few have radioed in to say that yes, there’s a null area within the woods similar to the one we had to deal with earlier. There’s no way to tell which null area it formed first. But it’s clearly made the same way as the other. History sucks because this occurrence wasn’t mentioned all that much. But as far as I can tell, the wight should be here hiding somewhere. I suspect this is the most recent void spot.” Ebony’s mother spoke about this. “Basically, the wight somehow forms this territory of theirs where they suck all the life out of the area and everything in it. Everyone knows how a black hole pulls in all matter and light until there’s nothing left. Well, a wight is the same way with life force. Ebony says the animals in the area know enough to stay away from the area. So we might see a few bones and dead plants. But the land itself will change from forest to barren rock

Ebony could tell that Benedict was avoiding her male family members when he could by taking groups out to search the area for more information. Franco, too, made himself useful to do chores in the camp. Her sisters were helping their mother set up the packs for the next day. All four of them were dealing with last-minute things before they became last minute disasters. By the time night fell and dinner was ready for everyone, Ebony couldn’t believe that her brothers were in the kitchen with Peter getting things done. They usually made themselves scarce when there were domestic chores to be done. Her father, Ran and Magnus were all sorted out by how to create a defence against whatever they encountered. After all, they’d encountered these things before. With all that done, they set them for the morning when they’d be safest to get out there and find the exact location. Then they hopefully would have time to set up the trap and spel

Last-minute preparations were going on all around Ebony. People were doing their thing, and they felt the serious nature of their business throughout their camp. That’s what the ranger’s station had become. A Percival Encampment as pack members moved about. Ebony ran over the last things she had to do to secure the station. Her pack stood at the ready. The boys were doing their thing. Her father kept giving her that side eye thing he did when he thought something was up and he didn’t know for sure what it was. That meant he’d have something to say later when he knew whatever he suspected, and she wasn’t sure what he was studying about her or the situation. This gave her no comfort, and the boys were on edge as well. How would she change this up so that everyone could settle down? It wasn’t like they were actually saying anything or doing anything. She could respond to or deal with because if she did, she’d look like she was overreacting to something in

Ebony knew how bad it appeared to be, but she’d never actually gone very far into what she now knew to be a Wight’s Territory. The words barren and desolate were perfect to describe the grey and brown landscape of practically bare rock and dead trees. If she wasn’t aware of magic and magical creatures' abilities. She’d have believed the land poisoned or salted. Because this could be the only way something like this could happen. An extremely polluted land either naturally like the Barron Sea or manmade like a landfill. There were places on the earth still that nothing grew because human armies at some point poisoned the earth by laying down enormous amounts of salt. “I understand their hesitancy not to enter this place. It feels like something is hanging in the air and as you walk by in clings to you until it drags you down,” Sapphire said. Poor she-wolf was just getting the hang of her abilities. Abilities their aunt had wanted to steal. But she didn’t know which sister had the