POV: Thelma

The alarm was still blaring when I reached the camp's outer wall. What I saw made my blood run cold. From the north, Luna's hybrid army approached like a nightmare made flesh. Creatures that were fusions of multiple species, things that shouldn't exist. Wolves with vampire wings. Bears covered in witch-fire. Something that might have once been a deer but now had six legs and crystal horns that hummed with magic.

And they weren't mindless. They moved with purpose, coordinated like a military unit. From the south, Crimson Dawn's Ascended forces marched in perfect formation. Thousands of humans with supernatural abilities, armed with advanced weapons, moving with military...