Chapter 17: The Attacks

RORY POV

I glanced over at Jeremy, and he gave me a sympathetic look. I tried to remain calm, but I had a million thoughts racing through my head. Where did Astelle come from? There had to be others of her kind. Why was she working alone?

"Where are the others like her?" I asked Oliver. "Astelle's type of people. She can't possibly be the only one of her kind."

"I don't know, we don't know much about Astelle," Oliver replied. "I don't know where she came from, why she's in Alaska or anything much besides that. I know she's been coming after wolf-shifters for generations, though."

"How does she control animals?" I asked.

"I'm not sure. That's a mystery to us. Maybe some kind of trance? We haven't figured that out yet. We notice she chooses larger animals but tends to control animals that live in packs or groups. That explains why wolves are her preference."

"Why not control humans then?"

"I've wondered that," Lacey said quietly.