I startled awake and turned on the lamp, didn't know what woke me until I heard it again. Howls. The pack I shared land with were having a howling fest. I groaned, exhausted from the sleep they'd woken me up from. I looked at the time. Midnight? That meant I'd literally just dropped my head down to sleep. I got up and carefully toed between the papers I'd strewn on the floor from the research I'd spent my whole day doing on the case.
I yawned and entered the bath to relief myself before leaving myroom to check the locks. A habit I had learned as a child and never stopped doing even when I was the safest I'd ever been.
After seeing that my sister and her baby were okay I carefullywent back to my room and got inside the covers. After turning off the lamp the room was only lit with the pale red of my digital clock. Oh, would you look at that. It was thirty past midnight. 'Happy birthday to me,' I thought as sleep took me again.
On the other side of the world, deep in warlock territory, Sebastian Concorde woke up from a death sleep with a smile. "It is time."