Chapter 112

Beau

We saw the ghostly flames across the horizon. The boys yipped and whined as we paced within the confines of the wards she had placed. In this form I could feel it, some strange beautiful thing linked to the totality of our land. Everything that woman touched was blessed, and I was going to be sure to get my fill of those blessings when I saw her safe and sound, when I finally held her back in my arms.

Then the sky rained starlight. They looked like millions of tiny meteors but fell down like ash or snow, floating out of clear skies. I let out a howl and the boys joined in. The beast answered and I don't know if it was the fact that his call solidified their safety or the fact that a presence seemed to lift out of me, but a weight lifted and for the first time in a decade, a light of hope burned free in my heart. She had broken over a hundred years of tragedy in one night. And a decade of pain and remorse had begun to finally heal.

I let out another howl in question and the respon