Chapter 51. Stay Within the Border

Layla’s POV

The new lights will be installed tomorrow. A few of the pack members had been sent off into a human town to buy them tonight, and they’d be back in the morning. This meant that we had no light except for the torches that had been placed around with small flames. All families were tucked into their houses out of fear of losing their pups in the darkness, even more so considering the fact that on the other side of the border, several miles of a harsh forest awaited.

I looked at the flames on the torches. A sudden surge of curiosity had me walking down to the closest to my house. The flame was writhing and flickering unlike the others that remained still. There was no wind, nothing to cause the flame to move as it did.

The golden hue of the fire was mellowing into a blue shade that illuminated my face.

Like the flick of a finger, the flame stopped moving and turned back to its golden orange, but further down, another one started acting up. I l