Lycaon's eyes flashed open as she heard cans rattling in the night air. She got up and was about to wake Balto when she noticed Daryl was staring straight at her. She didn't like his dangerous glare. He didn't trust her and wouldn't hesitate to spear her heart with an arrow.
She wondered why he thought she was more dangerous than whatever it was that had sounded the alarm. "Shouldn't we check what that was? It might have been Negan."
"We'd be full of holes if it were the guys from the road."
Lycaon nodded in agreement.
"They're gone."
"You sound pretty damn confident. Let me take the rest of the watch. I have some thinking to do."
Daryl kept his gaze on her. "You can do whatever you want. If it were up to me, I'd still be heading for Alexandria."
"Is there something wrong?"
"Yeah… We came across someone's old neighborhood and the whole town was dead. There were a lot of W's on people's foreheads."
"That had happened before we joined the group. The Wolves were in good spirits when my sister and I joined."
"What would make you join that kind of group?"
"Join or die…" Lycaon seemed to want to avoid the subject. "You don't need to trust us. I just need to know if my sister is alive. That's all that matters to me. If she's anywhere she'd be with your group."
"Why is that?"
"Do you know of a girl name Eliza?"
Daryl's eyes lit up.
Lycaon smiled a little. "She got really excited when she heard that a sherif and an asian man were spotted heading towards your town…"
Daryl's smile dropped. "How do you know about where we live?"
Lycaon couldn't remember the last time she felt afraid. She had just stepped a land mine. She tapped Balto's foot. "You should probably go."
"He ain't going nowhere…"
"What's going on Daryl," Sasha asked sternly. She held her gun at Lycaon.
Lycaon looked back at them fiercely. "You may do as you wish with me, but do it after I get you home.
"Why should I promise you anything? You attacked my group!"
"I will take full responsibility," Lycaon said calmly.
"Lycaon what the hell are you doing?" Balto wasn't going anywhere. It was obvious he would die for her if the situation ever presented itself.
"Daryl… Let's just see what kind of damage has been done before we do anything to them. You wouldn't want to kill an innocent person would you?"
Daryl laughed at Sasha trying to be the calm, cool one in the situation.
"Daryl," she said again, but more firmly.
Daryl lowered his crossbow as the morning light danced its way into the shack.
"Yeah… whatever…" Daryl stormed outside and took a quick glance at the breach. He was hoping to find something to shoot.
"Come on Daryl. You're the only one that can lead us," Sasha said trying to smooth out her authoritative edge.
Daryl could feel that Sasha sympathized with him, but all he wanted to do was kill the people who may be responsible for his friends lives. Daryl nodded and lead the way.
"What were you looking at anyway," Abraham asked.
"We heard a noise shortly before we woke you all up," Lycaon answered.
"They weren't one of us. Whoever it was, they were damn clumsy. Left a mess of a trail back there." Daryl muttered.
"Maybe it was one of the Alexandrians," Abraham mused.
"It doesn't matter. We need to get home and assess the damage first," Sasha snapped. Daryl smirked. Sasha was fighting against her attraction for Abraham. He stopped and motioned for the others to stop as well. He could hear the sound of shuffling of feet and low moans.
Lycaon began to climb a tree and saw that there were a lot of walkers ahead, but what really caught her eye was the steel wall up ahead. She climbed down and motioned the rest to follow her.
They stopped at a tree with a hanging limb. "What did you see," Sasha asked.
Lycaon smiled. "My sister was with one of your people."
A horn could be heard in the background. It was far away, but Daryl could tell that the walkers were interested. He motioned for everyone to stay put. They took down a couple of straggling walkers until Rick and Glenn showed up.
Rick gave Daryl a quick embrace and slapped him on the back. They rushed back in through the gate.
Daryl was at a loss for words. Rick, Carl, Micchone, Maggie, Glenn, Tara, Rosita, and Aaron were all there. He almost wanted to cry in relief.
"God you don't know how good it is to see you guys," Rick said looking just as bad as Daryl.
"What happened," Sasha said looking at the group.
Daryl was so used to seeing how they used to look before Alexandria. Now everyone was dirty and haggard. He looked at Rick for answers.
"There was an attack and right after that, the clocktower collapsed on the wall."
Daryl looked around desperately. That order, that rest that he had finally gotten so used to was gone. It was now the war zone that he was used to seeing outside the wall. It was such a strange sensation, to have the old life suddenly crashing back into him.
"… Carol… Where's Carol?"
