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They were alive. That was the only word I could cling to, the only fragile truth holding back the total collapse of my sanity.

Silvia was pale, unconscious, her usually fierce face slack with exhaustion and a deep, unnatural stillness. She was being supported by two cloaked figures, her body limp between them.

And Mother—Thalindra. She looked exactly as she did when she went limp in the vision, but now she was real, her head resting against the shoulder of her captor, her features bruised and utterly defeated.

Father—Alessandro. He was awake, and the sight of him was the most agonizing of all.

He was battered, his clothes torn, blood staining his massive shoulders, but his eyes were open, fixed on the figure on the throne with an expression of absolute hatred and despair. He was straining against the grips of his captors, his powerful muscles twitching uselessly, clearly weakened by some form of magical restraint. His gaze flicked to me, a momentary widening of the eyes, a brief,
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    I ran to them while my thoughts spun. The relief was a physical force, overwhelming the exhaustion and the fear. I didn’t run with grace; I stumbled, propelled by the desperate, raw need to confirm this impossible reality. The ground beneath my feet was soft and yielding, a stark contrast to the cold, hard stone of the forgotten hall, yet my mind refused to trust the sensation. Nothing made sense. The shift had been too complete, too absolute. It shattered all my comprehension of time and space. Was it an illusion? Or is this an illusion? I couldn't distinguish between the nightmare and the miracle. Was the ancient chamber the dream, or was this sun-dappled clearing, this sudden, impossible reunion, merely the final, cruel layer of the villain’s magic? A brief, deceptive calm before the true terror began? I hugged my mother to be sure they were real. I didn't reach for her with a gentle embrace; I crashed into her, my arms closing around her with desperate, consuming force, burying

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    His body whipped around in a swift motion, so fast it was less a physical turning and more a shift in the air itself. The blind, channeling emptiness that had possessed him vanished, replaced by a terrible, immediate lucidity. The failure of the ritual had ripped him out of his trance, forcing him back into the cold, strategic cruelty of his own mind. His body was tense, coils of uncontrolled, angry power radiating off him in hot, suffocating waves. And his eyes landed directly on me. I was no longer pretending to look ahead. The necessity of the disguise had crumbled with the bowl. I dropped the vacant stare, allowing the fire of my defiance, the sheer, blazing fury of the dragon-awakening, to show. I was looking back at him now as his scowl deepened. The raw, predatory rage that distorted his features was chilling, an expression of absolute hatred toward the one small human who dared to ruin his millennia-in-the-making plan. His eyes had returned back to their black, hollow, soul

  • Rise Of The Silver Wolf   84

    As he walked close to me, the dark energy exuding from him seemed to intensify as it wrapped around me, almost making me choke. It was a cold, thick pressure, like being submerged in freezing water, and it pressed against my throat, making it nearly impossible to draw a quiet breath. The malevolence was suffocating, a silent promise of agonizing control. This was his raw power, unchecked and focused, preparing to bind me. My internal dragon, Aliya, remained a silent, fiery core, an immense pressure holding the darkness at bay but not yet fighting it. He stopped few inches from me and handed me the knife. The silence between us was profound, broken only by the rhythmic, low-level chanting of the cloaked figures. The dagger, slick with the blood of my parents and my sister, felt icy and heavy in my hand. I could feel the residual heat of their bodies on the hilt, a terrifying intimacy of shared sacrifice. I didn't dare meet his eyes. To look into those sightless white orbs would be to

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    “Am I the only one self-aware then?” I asked, the internal question crisp and urgent, a frantic need for inventory and tactical assessment. If I was the only one awake, the burden of action fell entirely on me. If others were aware, even partially, the chance of success multiplied exponentially. Aliya’s reply was instant, a calming flow of information into my racing mind. “Mother is awake and aware, but she's weak.” The knowledge that Mother, was conscious was a surge of relief, immediately tempered by the fact of her exhaustion. She was fighting the magical restraints, but only just. “She could easily break free with her dragon, but that will put the rest of you in danger since she wouldn't be able to protect you all.” Aliya explained the brutal calculation. Mother breaking free meant a desperate, immediate fight for her own life, but it would leave Father, Silvia, and me completely exposed to the ensuing chaos and the wrath of the enemy leader. She had chosen the more difficult pa

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    “We're going to get out of this alive, do you understand?” The voice said, the gentle tone now overlaid with an unwavering, quiet strength that brooked no argument. It wasn't a question of ability, but a declarative statement of intent, a vow of survival. The certainty in the internal voice was the most powerful medicine against the consuming terror that had paralyzed me moments before. And I almost cried at the reassurance and the way it said it. The lump in my throat tightened, a sudden, unexpected swell of desperate hope threatening to dissolve the fragile wall of anger I had constructed. It had been months since I heard a voice speak with such absolute confidence about my future, a voice that treated survival not as a wish, but as a foregone conclusion. The sensation was profoundly destabilizing—a deep, ancient sense of being truly protected, a feeling I hadn't known since I was the little girl running through the fire. “How?” I asked, the internal query thin and strained, the o

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    They were alive. That was the only word I could cling to, the only fragile truth holding back the total collapse of my sanity. Silvia was pale, unconscious, her usually fierce face slack with exhaustion and a deep, unnatural stillness. She was being supported by two cloaked figures, her body limp between them. And Mother—Thalindra. She looked exactly as she did when she went limp in the vision, but now she was real, her head resting against the shoulder of her captor, her features bruised and utterly defeated. Father—Alessandro. He was awake, and the sight of him was the most agonizing of all. He was battered, his clothes torn, blood staining his massive shoulders, but his eyes were open, fixed on the figure on the throne with an expression of absolute hatred and despair. He was straining against the grips of his captors, his powerful muscles twitching uselessly, clearly weakened by some form of magical restraint. His gaze flicked to me, a momentary widening of the eyes, a brief,

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