It was true that the marsh was so far because of the lack of direct routes. After all, the peninsula could only be accessed by the land mass that connected it to the mainland. As for the waters, there was a sea that kissed it on three sides; no werewolf would brave those tides to get to high grounds meters from the surface of the sea.
However, the willful—ah, no, frustrated—Alpha had to vent his anger on something else. Nicholai had engaged his werewolf form, while two more Gammas heeded his call. Since they were just fighting off a brood of harpies, Nicholai didn't opt to call too many. He got Darius on his back and ferried his mate through the space warp. The same happened for Cyrus and Dylan.