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Chapter 31: The Scars We Carry
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Crowned by the Moon, Rejected by the Alpha. Chapter 35: Siege at Dawn
Invasion was heralded with the first pale light of morning, when mist yet clung about the grove like ghostly sentries that would not quit their charge. Aria was early-risen, wandering about the peripheries with tense vigor that testified to sleepless vigil and accumulating fears. Enemy scouts, after being spotted, had retired within the forest’s amicable shade, but the warning was enough in plain text: the rapture of waiting was nigh its end.She crouched upon the twisted watchtower that perched upon the highest point of the grove, sharp senses stiff against the predawn darkness. The camp below her seethed with the schooled enthusiasm of warriors on the eve of battle. The oil-smeared steel and pine resin smoke merged with the acrid flavor of fear-sweat, its aroma filling her nostrils with the flavor of war’s concord."Malamatash movement in the easter
Crowned by the Moon, Rejected by the Alpha. Chapter 34: A Warning from the Dead
Daybreak was a colorless, dismal hour, shadowed by clouds low over the holy grove like a mourner's veil. Aria awoke to the cold, bare side of the bed and to a rumpled bed, somehow faintly disheveled. She bent down to his pillow, inhaling the still-scented pine and winter, and even that scent was far away.She'd seen him drill the young soldiers through the window, his actions utterly determined and single-minded. He'd risen before first light yet again, motivating himself and others with a drive that was almost desperation. Whatever he was troubled with, it was eating away at him from the inside out.Morning was spent in preparation fog—knives sharp, supplies laid out, defense positions secured. Aria worked to a point of all power, craving something that would release the gathering horror in her breast. But noon was achieved, lassitude lay heavily upon her shoulders, and she slipped away to the serenity of the inner grove.The Great Oak had aged within the
Crowned by the Moon, Rejected by the Alpha. Chapter 33: Chains of the Past
Their council of war convened at sundown, once the last gossamer thread of evil ash had finally stopped falling. Aria was seated at the top of the gigantic oak table hewn from a single tree that was centuries old when felled. In front of her were the alphas of the three neighboring packs, their second-in-commands, and older wolves whose combined recollection extended back to dark times.Sever's attitude and mood of doing nothing while Draven is gathering his forces."Four hundred people," growled Northern Ridge pack leader Magnus Ironfoot. His scarred hand went white on top of the table as he poked fingers around the table edge. "Disappear into thin air with nary a scream. And we're going to take some small grove of yours' word better than we took stone and steel?""The sacred grove has seen dark times before," announced Aria freely, despite the crawling of her skin under the unceasing burden of all these glances. She was younger than twenty-four, younger even t
Crowned by the Moon, Rejected by the Alpha. Chapter 32 : Ash on the Wind
The morning fog clung as a veil over the sacred grove and lifted with the frail light of dawn. Aria sat with her legs folded on the ground in front of the Great Oak, and her meditation was broken up by the nervous tension that ran through the camp for days. She felt it crackling through the air like the lightning of thunderstorms with her eyes shut.Something was not right with Kale.He'd first mentioned it three days back, when they'd come back from the recon of the mountain pass. He'd retreated into himself, further back, more rigid and more fragmented than his normally sharp self. His green eyes would glaze out of focus while they sat and plotted together, his gaze going off into some other world she couldn't track. And last night, reaching for him in the furs on the floor where they slept together, he'd jerked back with an angry huff of breath and snarled something about the perimeter sentries.*Battle stress*, she thought to herself, but the answer felt sup
Crowned by the Moon, Rejected by the Alpha. Chapter 31: The Scars We Carry
The walk back through the clearing of the Flame Guardian seemed to be walking through his own grave. With every step, he pushed forward into the ranks of the ones that he needs to deceive, into the heart of his partner whom he has to destroy with his silence. The scar within his heart throbbed with every movement so that it kept reminding him of the solemn oath that he took and of the price that rests upon his shoulders.He stood outside the inner circle and observed Aria working healing those hurt in their recent conflicts. Herculis stroked her hands, where she radiated gentle light, and gazed at the holy power passing through her increasingly freely. She was maturing into that which she was intended to be—a protector, a guardian, an entry between the world of man and the world of spirits.And she was also developing into something he could no longer touch.The change of the crown had worked on both of them, but in a different way. As Aria shone all the more radiant with each passing
Crowned by the Moon, Rejected by the Alpha. Chapter 30: Oath of Flame
The power of the crown flowed through his veins like liquid silver, reshaping him even as he could not yet conceive. Yet, even as godly power recalculated his existence, his mind was already on pragmatics. Draven's army moved—hundreds of corrupted wolves and mercenaries who would stop at nothing to burn to the ground all he held dear. The crown had made them powerful, but power would not be enough.He needed an arsenal."Wait with the others," he whispered into Aria, his lips brushing against her forehead in a kiss that was as chilly as starlight and heavy with the presence of old magic."I must ready the last defenses.""Kale—" she began, but he was already on his way, drawn by a sensitivity older than his own soul. The might of the crown called to him in thought, opening before him paths in the grove not previously visible, the entire gamut of the defenses of the sanctuary.He found what he was looking for in a clearing he had never seen
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