"Don't call the pack with a howl," I begged Joel still on my knees. "The rogues don't know we know, yet. Let them think we aren't onto them."

"Shift," Joel ground out quietly, "everyone here shift now, pass the word quietly."

The pack was silent watching us. Those that heard the command shifted, those that didn't followed the lead of the wolves that did.

I heard Joel's voice ordering all the warriors to take up positions around the pack.

Joel pushed into my mind and into Rick's at the same time.

'Which way and when?' he asked.

'They looked like they might have been heading north, sir, last I saw...