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The days that followed blurred together like watercolors in rain. I moved through the motions of being Luna attending council meetings where my voice was ignored, presiding over ceremonies where wolves barely acknowledged my presence, sitting at the high table while conversations flowed around me as though I were invisible.

But beneath the surface, something was fracturing.

The bond mark pulsed more frequently now, often when I least expected it. During breakfast, it would flicker against my wrist like a dying candle. In the middle of conversations, I would feel that familiar throb, that warning that made my stomach clench with dread. Each pulse felt like a countdown to something I couldn't name.

Kael's absences grew longer. Some nights he didn't return at all, and when he did, his scent was layered with unfamiliar traces pine from distant territories, the musk of other wolves, and something else. Something sweeter, more intimate that made my wolf pace restlessly within me.

I tried to
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  • A Luna's Vengeance    55

    Three weeks after the Unraveling's defeat, I collapsed during a routine coordination session. One moment I was facilitating communication between confederation forces across three continents, the next I was on the command post floor with concerned faces hovering above me and the Eclipse Covenant network flickering like dying embers."Severe magical exhaustion," Moira announced after examining me with healer's abilities that revealed what I had been trying to ignore. "Your supernatural reserves are depleted beyond safe recovery levels. You've been drawing on life force itself to maintain network operations."The diagnosis should have surprised me, but it didn't. I had felt the growing strain for weeks the constant pull of maintaining connections across vast distances, the energetic cost of coordinating responses to multiple crises simultaneously, the cumulative exhaustion that enhanced abilities couldn't completely mask."Recovery timeline?" Darius asked, though his expression suggeste

  • A Luna's Vengeance    54

    The aftermath of the Unraveling's defeat revealed challenges that military victory had left unaddressed. Across the Eastern Continent, vast territories that had been subjected to systematic reality dissolution needed reconstruction on a scale that made our previous crisis responses seem modest by comparison.I stood at the edge of what had once been the continent's primary urban center, watching confederation forces work alongside local survivors to literally rebuild existence from philosophical void. The process was exhausting and technically complex, requiring abilities I had never fully developed even after months of coordination practice."Population assessment from recovered territories," Elena reported, her healer's senses allowing her to track the condition of beings who had survived the Unraveling's campaign. "Approximately three hundred thousand individuals confirmed alive, though many are experiencing severe psychological trauma from exposure to concentrated nihilism."The n

  • A Luna's Vengeance    53

    The combined conventional-enhanced assault on the Unraveling's primary stronghold began before dawn, when their ability-suppression cycles were at their weakest ebb. I led the enhanced strike force while Alpha Theron coordinated conventional units, our forces moving through reality-distorted terrain with the careful precision of beings who understood they faced opponents unlike anything in recorded history.The stronghold itself was a monument to philosophical negation not a fortress built to withstand assault, but a void carved into existence where the normal rules of space and matter had been systematically unraveled. Approaching it felt like walking toward the edge of reality itself, where the very concepts of form and function were being dissolved."Conventional force status?" I asked through communication crystals that barely functioned in the anti-reality field surrounding the target."In position but experiencing severe conceptual displacement," Alpha Theron replied, her voice

  • A Luna's Vengeance    52

    The irony of the situation wasn't lost on any of us the most advanced supernatural confederation in recorded history was about to stake its survival on the tactical wisdom of wolves who had never experienced enhancement. As conventional forces deployed throughout the Eastern Continent's chaos zones, I found myself learning lessons I should have mastered years before."Primary difference between enhanced and conventional tactical thinking," Alpha Theron explained as she briefed confederation leadership on baseline military doctrine, "is that conventional forces assume limitations rather than possibilities."We had gathered in a command post that existed in one of the few stable reality zones remaining near the former urban center. Around us, conventional wolves moved with the quiet efficiency of beings who had never doubted their ability to function without supernatural assistance."Enhanced forces tend to approach problems by identifying which abilities can solve them," she continued.

  • A Luna's Vengeance    51

    The first direct encounter with the Unraveling came at dawn, when our forward scouts reported entities approaching the survivor enclave with abilities that seemed designed specifically to counter everything the confederation represented.I stood atop the defensive barriers the survivors had constructed from stabilized reality, watching figures emerge from the chaos zones with movements that hurt to observe directly. They didn't walk so much as unmake the space between where they were and where they wanted to be, leaving trails of dissolution that took minutes to heal."Count and classification?" I asked Marcus, though my own enhanced senses were struggling to process what we faced."Seventeen distinct entities, possibly more," he replied, consulting readings from instruments that were giving contradictory data. "But classification is... problematic. They don't register as individual beings so much as coordinated absence."Through the Eclipse Covenant network, I felt the unease of conf

  • A Luna's Vengeance    50

    The trans-oceanic deployment required abilities that the confederation had never tested at such scale. Traditional travel would take weeks time that overseas communities didn't have as reality breakdown accelerated beyond containment. Instead, we relied on supernatural entities whose powers could bridge vast distances through methods that defied conventional understanding.I stood at the center of a massive ritual circle carved into the prairie floor, surrounded by beings whose combined abilities would attempt something unprecedented in recorded history. Spatial-folders who could compress distance, dimension-walkers who could step between realities, time-stream navigators who could accelerate our passage through alternate temporal flows."Coordination matrix established," announced the lead spatial-folder, their form flickering between visible and not as they manipulated local space-time. "Target destinations confirmed, emergency supply caches positioned, communication relays activate

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