DRAKKAR

My whole body tensed at the beasts’ sounds, but before I could defend my family, I saw how they lowered themselves on their paws toward them…

No, not toward them...toward him.

I looked back at my pup in his mother’s arms, her fingers playing in his fur, unaware she was surrounded by predators.

His red eyes fixed on me again, and they no longer looked like those of a newborn just arrived in this world.

Something hid in their depths, an intense gleam, full of higher power, of wisdom, of d