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disguarded by the fact that Calum was too often needlessly off task.  He chased the fight, not the better good.  I would have to remember that in the time of grave danger.
    Oh, since this is not.
    A scream let out of the female variety and all heads fell in that direction.  A Were woman, in her forties I’m guessing, lay bleeding on the ground with her arms sliced up and her face covered in blood.  Beside her, a Vampire stood dripping crimson frost and making the face of one who was about to flee.
    Oh great, a setback.
    We were supposed to be taking Borgon out, not making more havoc among our own. 
    Scanning the battlefield, I noted that the majority of the Weres were falling back and slowly making a perimeter circle barrier to keep him from escaping.  They probably didn ’t know he was a rogue and was most definitely not with us. 
    I eyed the red furred wolf and sensed he was still on my side.  We both stepped into the heat of it being weary of Mr. Bloody Hellraiser.  The Vamp wiped his chin on the sleeve of his filthy black t-shirt and singled a look just for me.  All in a matter of five seconds flat, the Vamp flew towards me, was intercepted by a Valkyrie swordsman, a rock hard Hunter, a teeth baring Were, and the leader of his own kind.  All I knew was he was dead when the tornado of bodies finally cleared, in pieces rather than just dead.  I ’d never seen anything like it.
    As if everyone had the same thought, a collective silence continued until I stepped forward making a split second decision to let Cord lead this little bru-ha-ha, but he wasn ’t budging.  I didn’t think about the fact that he couldn’t talk in animal form.  The things I didn’t know about my world and I called myself intelligent.
    Covertly eyeing the guys before Szar silently announced that they needed to step back and let me take the lead, I pushed forth the confidence I needed to portray for this particular crowd.  It seemed to me that, for the most part, I was just an actress in an endless story book where the author forgot to make me this fabulously brave heroine.  I only hoped I could come as close as possible.
    Cord read me fast enough he headed my way stepping over Vampire parts.  His huge head looked at Cas and then jumped four feet in the air behind the trees.  Mostly hidden.  Cas threw something into the trees and then a mostly naked Cord came strutting out.  He stepped up too close giving too much of an intimate appearance in our acutely obvious past acquaintance stage of friendship.  I allowed it simply because it sent a better message than a possible enemy causing trouble.
    “I can see your mind is at work,” Cord murmured without feeling and complete for the first time without expression.
    “Borgon was never here, was he?”
    Cord nodded a no.
    “Can we apologize and explain the mix-up or will they listen?”
    “They will do as I say,” he growled his true colors shining through.  “I neglected to mention that they were attacking only a Vampire and I guessed a stray Were, not the camp."
    “We tell them we were given false intel and see if they have information. If the camp was abandoned by you or your predecessor, then I’d like to look around and see that it has remained so.  It will be easy to see evidence of anyone staying here unnoticed.”
    Anyone else would have missed his nod as he turned from me, waved a hand at Cas to join him, and headed towards the closing in Were warriors in ready-to-fight-again mode.  I followed close behind remaining the mediator in waiting.
    Cord seeme d to just stare for a while at the tall, red haired guy with a snarly attitude then said in a growl, “Angus.”  He was the red furred Were who won the stand-off, I was sure.  He glowered before bowing his head at Cord and took a step back.  The others around him did the same.  Cord turned to Cas and told him the pack understood that this was an isolated incident with a rogue Vampire who Cas vowed to