Operation: Yukon
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The female was waiting for us on the floor of the lowermost part of the shaft. She was no longer pregnant but cradled two newborns, one at each massive teat. She looked at us in silence, huge eyes accusing us as we filed into the chamber. It took me a few seconds to spot that what was left of Watkins and Jennings lay in a pile of dismembered limbs, white bone and hollowed out skulls in a corner. The female didn't take her eyes off us.
"Couldn't we just…" the sheriff began, but her voice tailed off. She knew, we all knew, what had to be done. That didn't mean we had to like it. An unspoken command had us all raising our weapons at the same time, and the best I can say about it is that it was quick. Afterwards we couldn't get out of the shaft quickly enough and I think we were all feeling the same. I
could hardly have felt any worse had it been a human mother and children we'd left down there and I knew I was going to see those eyes in my dreams long after the smell in my nose and throat dissipated.
I didn't have time to think; my move was all reaction and adrenaline.
And somehow their silence only made them appear all that much more intimidating.
My legs didn't want me to go any farther and I had to force myself to step in after the cap once the door was fully open.
The captain took one look at the door, then at the stuff on the tables. He sucked at his teeth and swore under his breath. He lifted something off the
table and showed it to me.
"Look familiar?"
It was a primitive bone flute; the last time I'd seen anything like it was back in Siberia, and it hadn't belonged to a wolf.
"We need Watkins up here, right now," the cap said.
As if in reply, the sound of a truck horn pierced the air, insistent and frantic.
"It wasn't long after that Masteron got mauled. He got caught in the cage with them during feeding time and the big one ambushed him from behind. Damn near tore his scalp off and took a bite the size of his fist out of his thigh. He couldn't walk for a fortnight and if he'd lived would be using a cane for the rest of his life. But even then the daft bugger was making excuses for them, saying it was just in their nature.