The dark of the night in the Iondora capital was arguablly more illuminated than most places in the world, although, you could argue all night in the world would be dark. Yes, it did still masked most of things. But of course, it should not cover all things, right?
Some things should've been too large to be swallowed by mere shadow.
That was why the guard stationed at the inner eastern parapet of the Edengold estate nearly suffered a heart attack when he almost failed to recognize something in the dark.
One moment, he was tracing the familiar, elegant silhouette of a tree against the lesser black of the sky. The next, that patch of star-specked emptiness was occupied. He thought it was the clouds or something.
Nope.
A shape coalesced on top of the twenty-foot-high estate wall, a deeper darkness against the night. It was lupine, that much his panicking brain registered, but it warped every scale he knew.
