Wrath of Roma

Chapter 7

Chapter 7
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Flathead National Forrest, Montana

They crawled slowly through the dense forest. Progress was slow but they had to be cautious, they were deep within the Lockbourne territory and getting caught simply was not an option.

The leader signaled with his hand and they paused. They saw some moment up ahead and one of the guys donned his IR goggles and scanned the woods. It was a deer, he paused and looked around if any predator was hunting it. All clear. He gave a thumbs up and they resumed their slow crawl.

They had been here for a while, carefully entering Montanan avoiding detection. Major packs had people working in airports and other transit companies to keep an eye on werewolf movement through their territories. Many others worked in law enforcements, giving them the needed authority to snoop on people without looking suspicious.

Patrick Lockbourne borders were well protected, this was a wealthy pack controlling a whole state and on top of that Patrick was first cousin to Gordon and was his man to the boot, so this whole package made Patrick a worthy opponent thus they were not taking any chances. They had slowly wormed their way in to Patrick's territory with utmost care and as they moved to the last one hundred miles of packs headquarters, it became even more difficult. Wolf patrols and forest rangers who were obviously werewolves. They had taken weeks to study the patrol patterns and lay out an infiltration plan.

It has been three days since they entered the core pack territory and were close to the pack lands, today they expected to hit the borders. They made it for another forty minutes and then paused as the lead position signaled a halt.

They group waited as the people in the front surveyed their surroundings. One of them signaled the group leader to come up front and he crawled over. The guy at the front simply handed him over a pair of binoculars and the group leader peered in.

What was this? This was not there in their intelligence. They were supposed to hit miles of forest before reaching the core pack lands where most of the senior pack members resided in a collective community but not this.

This was a makeshift house inside the forest, clearly in use and most concerning, very well guarded. Luckily all of them were sprayed with scent suppressors which was good at least for the next twelve hours otherwise a patrol would have picked up their scent.

The group leader considered his options, for this house to be well protected it must have someone important in it. This could be vital Intel, but this meant they should have to forego reaching the core territory. For him that was dead in the water anyways, they couldn't go ahead without them getting spotted and that meant they had to circle back and start over from a different route all over again.

Alternatively they could spend some time here and send back intelligence, making a choice he signaled his men to gather data on this unexpected finding.

His men quickly pulled out special cameras meant for spying and were deadly silent in operation. His men started clicking pictures, one of the men pulled up a wireless hotspot provided by a local telecom provider who promised a good coverage, he switched it on and waited, the red light on the device blinked for a minute while he waited in suspense and then turned green. Bingo! They had signal out here. The cameras were wireless ready and were already configured to the hotspot's network and settings on the cameras were enabled to upload pictures the moment they were taken, and just like that pictures by the team were getting uploaded on to a storage cloud. This way, even if they were caught and killed, information captured would be already available to the recipient.