He came out of the eastern pass at a run, and Marina knew before he hit the ground that he wasn't going to make it.

The wolf's shift was broken, half-form, half-human, the kind that happened when a body had been pushed past the point where the magic held together properly. He was bleeding from three places she could see and probably more she couldn't. He crossed the camp perimeter and collapsed six feet inside it and the sound he made when he hit the ground brought everyone to their feet at once.

Marina reached him first. She was closest to the eastern edge, still running her perimeter check from...