**Lilly‘s POV

“It‘s all right, honey,” my mother said, smoothing my hair. “We‘ll be alright. Just stay quiet for a bit longer, and then the wolves upstairs will go, and we‘ll be safe.”

I looked up at my mother and nodded, but wasn‘t sure

I believed her. We had run down here, my older brother, my mother, and I, about an hour ago, when we‘d first gotten word from t he village guard that there were unknown wolves spotted in the woods near our homes. Some of the other villages nearby had b een attacked recently, so we‘d been on high alert. None of us had slept for the last...