Once your time in the mess hall was over and you'd managed to choke down a terrible meal of something that barely passed for food, you were taken to the prison cells, arranged roughly in what you would later learn was called a panopticon. Each room was a small wedge placed along the circumference of the Nail's rounded walls. It left you feeling naked and exposed, but you supposed that was the point, after all. A central guard could watch every cell at once without relying on cameras or patrols.
Sonoma was pulled aside by the leader of the prisoners—an elder named Hanska. He seemed disturbed by the presence of your pack, but you were certain that Sonoma would soon explain the plan to him.
The plan: Several of the wolves Sonoma and General Rivera had smuggled into the Nail were equipped with subdermal devices meant to release a powerful stimulant into their bloodstreams, designed to provoke the beast and grant your wolf form incredibly increased strength and dexterity for a limited period of time. Unfortunately, such augmentation came with the drawback of reduced mental capacity. The breakout would begin when Rivera's undercover operatives transmitted an electronic signal to activate the drug.
During the chaotic frenzy of the escape, your job as an assassin was to track down a civilian working in the Nail's third-floor labs. Caroline Bodner was the human responsible for creating and updating the tracking systems used to monitor werewolves back in Haven. Rumor had it that she was developing new screening techniques to update the old tech that the werewolf operatives in the government and military had long since found exploits for. If she were allowed to continue her work unimpeded, the revolution would be over before it even had the chance to truly begin. Your new teacher, Nawat, believed that Caroline needed to die for her sins against werewolf-kind.
You were about to get settled in when Bly ran over to greet you. She'd been transported in a different truck and you hadn't been certain when you would be able to contact her. It would be a while before the plan was enacted—Sonoma would need to explain the ins and outs to Hanska and his pack after all—so you and Bly decided that you should get to know some of the other wolves better in the time you had left before you were forced back to your cells for lights out.
I went to see the local elders and speak to the Council of Chiefs.
I was curious about the wolves in the exercise room. While there, I met up with Inferi, Augury, and her group of Metalheads that had ambushed my pack in the cafeteria.
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