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Molev stood, fluidly jumping off the roof to land beside me.
“They howl to call more of their kind. I wanted to know if another waited nearby.”
“You don’t think there is?”
“No. I believe it will try to use the infected to surround us.”
“Then my question still stands. Shouldn’t you kill it before that happens?”
He exhaled and cupped the back of my head.
“There are already too many infected gathered for me to leave you unprotected. We will wait and see what it does next.”
I shook my head. “I would rather be the hunter than the prey. Let’s bait it in.”
Molev tilted his head as he studied me.
“How would you bait it in?”
“Kill the lights to the north. Have the personnel there retreat very loudly while you get into position. Most predators are opportunistic, right? If it believes the lights failed and people are running scared, I think it’ll come at us head-on. And if the hound and the infected are in one area, we can focus the majority of our forces there.”
He remained quiet for a long moment.
“Some of the infected are starting to move,” a voice said over Molev’s radio. “To the east.”
Molev brought the radio to his mouth.
“It’s time for us to hunt. Anyone with a weapon, move to the north now. Leave lookouts to the south. Turn off the northern lights in two minutes and make a lot of panic sounds as you retreat to higher ground. Shoot the infected. I will deal with the hound.”
He pressed a kiss to my forehead.
“Stay with the doctor. If anything happens to me, get the doctor to Mya. She’s the cure.”
I nodded, and then he was gone. I called up to the doctor for the roof ladder and made it to the top just as the distant northern lights went out.
The howl that pierced the night sent a shard of fear through my middle. How many of these things had Molev faced now? Nine? Ten? I’d lost count but couldn’t stop myself from wondering if this was one too many for his current lifetime.
“Talk to me,” the doctor said. “What’s happening? Why did we turn off the lights?”
“Molev is going to try to deal with the hound before it can try coordinating an attack.”
“They do that?”
“Yeah. They’re pretty smart, and they’ve been starting to use the infected to help them. Molev said there are too many infected out there with the hound already.”
She huddled deeper in her blanket and watched the north with me.
A smattering of gunfire broke out a second before I heard Molev’s roar.
“Was that the hound?” the doctor asked.
“No. That was Molev.”
The doctor slowly turned her head to look at me. The complete shock almost made me smile.
“Yeah,” I said. “You and everyone in charge have been viewing him as something he’s not. He’s not human. He’s not here for us to use or control. And he’s so much more than his differences.”
“I won’t forget that,” the doctor said.
