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Katie sat up fully now, her eyes scanning around the space before looking back at me.

“Henrik, your pack is in danger,” Sam’s voice cracked, and I could only imagine what she saw.

I looked at Katie and swallowed slowly. Katie reached out, taking my hand, which I hadn’t realized I was shaking.

“What is it?” Katie whispered.

“Sam saw a vision…the packs in danger.”

Chapter 15 - Katie

I was nervous as we sat, waiting for the Council to talk with us. Henrik was pacing back and forth in front of me, and I sat in a chair. My leg was bouncing since I wasn’t able to stay calm. Since Henrik said those few little words, my mind has been a mess.

I’d be trying to think of any way to stop whatever Sam saw. I couldn’t think of how to protect everyone; I knew so little about magic. We didn’t even know who was doing this. How the hell were we supposed to stop them?

I looked at Henrik, watching him rub his face. I wanted to help, but I felt like there was nothing I could do. I could see this was weighing on him deeply.

“Henrik, why don’t you sit? You’ve been pacing for hours.”

He called the Council immediately, and we met with them a couple of hours later. It was still really early in the morning, and I hadn’t had my coffee yet.

Henrik shook his head. “No, I just…I can’t think of how to fix this.”

I wanted to give him any answer possible, but I couldn’t even think of an answer. How was he going to?

I ached to help him.

“Sweetie, please sit.” I patted the chair next to me, and Henrik paused. I softened my eyes. “Please.”

Henrik nodded and walked over, sitting down next to me. I took his hand and gave it a squeeze. “We will figure something out.”

“I’m the Alpha,” he said back softly. “I’m not supposed to let things like this happen.”

I kept thinking of what he told me. Sam saw a vision of darkness taking over homes and people dying. She didn’t know how many, but Henrik needed to raise the alarm and warn everyone that this darkness was becoming a bigger problem and that whoever was doing it was growing more powerful.

“Henrik, we will figure this out,” I said, squeezing his hand. Henrik finally looked at me, his eyes freezing on me. He squeezed my hand back, nodding at me.

“Henrik, Katie. The Council is ready for you.”

We both got up and headed down the hallway to the regular room where the Council did all their meetings. Fear grabbed me that the Council would cut my work for my protection. But I knew that was the wrong idea. If they cut me off now, it was going to take years for someone else to get caught up; they were pretty much impeding our doom.

The Council sat in their usual chairs, and two chairs were waiting for Henrik and me to sit in. Henrik sat down, and I sat down next to him.

Ralph spoke up first. “Derrick was filling us in on your phone call with him.”

Derrick and Steve both looked a little more tired than all the rest, and I would say it’s because Henrik called them both right away.

“Sam’s visions have been very small snippets, but we did find that she was right. We already found a couple of homes that had been attacked and a few dead.. It seems this darkness is taking on different shapes, volumes, and densities.”

Henrik stiffened in his chair, and I chewed on my lower lip.

“What else did your sister see? Did she tell you where it was traveling? If it just disappeared? Is it coming back? How soon?”

I frowned. The Council always had so many questions, and if we had answers, we would give them to them. But we all knew that Sam’s visions weren’t that detailed. They were short and small snippets of the bigger issue.

Henrik shook his head. “Just what I told you. She saw darkness travel out of the woods and to a few homes and that it was going around. I have no idea what happened next. But I had my men already looking, and they aren’t finding any.”

“So, it’s likely gone already?” Olivia asked, narrowing her vulture eyes at us. “So, what you’re saying is we lost it?”