Kasia stepped out of the doorway into the blinding sunlight, blinking as her eyes adjusted from the dim interior. She froze, her breath catching in her throat. The sight before her made no sense.
Her childhood home sat nestled in the center of a sprawling compound, surrounded by high fences topped with barbed wire. Guard towers loomed at the corners, armed sentries visible in their perches. The compound bustled with activity - hunters in dark tactical gear moving between buildings.
This had to be one of the main headquarters, based on the sheer size of it. But why was her house here, of all places?
Kasia's mind reeled as she tried to process all of this. The hunters were notoriously secretive about the locations of their bases. And yet, they had apparently repaired and built an entire compound around her family home. The home where her parents were murdered by werewolves when she was just a child.