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Chapter Seventy One - Shattered Silence

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Sylvie's POV

The world was a wound—bleeding sound and fury. I watched it all from the shadow of the great oak—its roots my anchor for eleven years of silence. The metallic scent of blood, the acid-taste of fear, the symphony of violence—it was a language I understood better than any pack tongue. It was the language of the forest that had raised me.

My brother was on his feet—swaying like a sapling in a storm. His face was a map of pain and defiance—but his eyes were fixed on the Silvermane Al
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