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“They liked your ideas?” Rumir shoved his head into the frame.
"Yes," I whispered. "They did, and tomorrow I'll be explaining them to the other agents. Hey, I can't teleport inside the facility, so I'm heading outside. I'll talk to you guys when I get there."
“You can’t teleport inside the facility?” Rehema made a face. “Why?”
"There was an accident with a new soul accidentally teleporting after getting his bracelet. I didn't get all the details, but to avoid it happening again, the building has been spelled. Hang up. I'm coming."
“Okay, okay!” Rehema blew me a kiss before ending the call, and I stepped outside the building and into the night.
I took a deep breath and then another. The facility was on top of a hill in a more secluded section of the city, allowing new souls to get a nice view of the city if they wished. I descended the steps with my eyes on the dazzling gold and white buildings and the flashing lights on the various glass towers.
“The City of Souls,” I breathed out. Suddenly, I heard a strangled cry. I turned around, looking around the small garden outside the facility, but there was no one. However, I was sure I'd heard it.
I stood there for a moment, listening. I heard it again, lower this time. But it was there—the sound of a woman screaming.
I started walking in the direction the noise had come from, around the side of the building, when I noticed an unfamiliar scent and stopped. There were many native creatures I had yet to encounter, whose scent I needed to learn, but the only thing I could think of was that an infected animal had made its way into the city.
I called on my wolf, and my fangs and claws descended as I dropped my bag and ran. I tapped at my bracelet and held down the button to send a voice message to Rehema.
"Guys, an infected creature is at the facility." I ran around the side of the building. "Come now, I need . . .” My words trailed off, and the blood in my veins chilled. "I-It's not an animal."
My hands fell to my side as I stared at the two women in front of me. A female new soul—a human—was pinned to the wall, and the blood that dripped from a wound in her side perfumed the air.
In front of her was a she-wolf, with one hand around the human’s throat while the other was digging into the crying woman’s gut.
"W-what are you doing? Let her go," I said. My voice was unrecognizable to me, but I was stunned. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
“H-Help me,” the human woman wept. “Help.”
The werewolf leaned forward and bit into the woman's throat. I jerked forward. I was shocked to my core as the werewolf ripped the woman's throat out. The werewolf then released the woman’s body, letting it fall to the ground, and a bitter taste rose in my throat, and my knees grew weak. I wasn’t sure that what I was seeing was real. It couldn’t be.
“W-what have you done!” I yelled. “What the hell have you done?”
The werewolf finally looked at me, her body turning to face me, her face and blouse covered in blood. But I forgot all of that. I ignored it all the second I saw her eyes.
Goddess, no, please no. She’s infected.
Her eyes were red orbs, the color in them moving as if alive. She bared her teeth at me, growling, a monster. I stepped back as a red mist escaped her lips, and my chest tightened with fear.
I'd never been someone to run away from trouble, but I turned and did exactly that.
There was murder in her eyes. But before I could touch my bracelet to teleport, I felt fangs sink into my shoulder. Arms wrapped around my body, and I was yanked backward into the darkness beside the facility.
I screamed.
I screamed and fought, but her strength was staggering. Her hold on me tightened, and my eyes blurred as the sound of my crunching bones rang in my ears . . .
