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161: The Mating Ceremony

Author: Oma
last update Last Updated: 2026-01-18 21:01:49

Kiera’s POV

I stood alone in my chambers… the Luna’s chambers that had been cleaned and prepared for me weeks ago but that I’d never actually used. Everything was quiet, and peaceful. The kind of peace that felt wrong after so much chaos.

The artifact pulsed against my skin, warm and insistent. Since absorbing Lucien’s dark magic and completing the trials, it had changed. Become more demanding, and present.

I could feel it now, constantly. Not just the physical weight of it around my neck, but the awareness it brought. Threats brewing in distant territories. Pack tensions simmering on borders I’d never visited. Rogues gathering in neutral zones. Dangers everywhere, all the time, filtering through my consciousness like static I couldn’t turn off.

The Guardian bond, the witch had called it. The price of wielding creation’s power.

I’d accepted that price willingly. Would accept it again. But I hadn’t truly understood what it meant until now… this constant, exhausting vigilance that never
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