If you like music while you read, try "Land of Confusion – Epic Trailer Version" by Hidden Citizens. It's what I was listening to while writing the next couple of chapters.
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~ LHARS ~
At first Lhars had been overjoyed to see the females. But that joy quickly turned to grief as they shrank away from him—even those he knew. Even the wolves, though he saw less timidity in them, more of a willingness to fight.
What had been done to their proud females? Lhars saw faces he didn't know at all, several that he recognized but had never been close to, and one or two that, under different circumstances, he might have rushed to share scents.
All of them looked at him with haunted eyes, keeping themselves facing him when he walked among them, some submitting—but trembling while they did it.
What the fuck had happened to them?
