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The Stranger in the Ashes

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🌒 Chapter Thirteen: The Stranger in the Ashes

The air was thick with the scent of blood and wet earth as dawn broke over the battlefield. The warriors bodies had been cleared, the fires extinguished, but the earth still felt heavy with the weight of what had happened.

Raven stood on the balcony, looking over the training grounds where her wolves moved, rebuilding, reinforcing, and tending to their wounds. The bond with Ragnar grew even stronger in her chest, steady and comforting, but it couldn’t erase the tension coiling in her gut.

They had won the battle.

But the war wasn’t over.

Ragnar moved quietly beside her, scanning over the horizon, the early light catching in the silver strands of his hair an odd side effect of the power that had awakened within him under the blood moon.

“Can you feel it?” he asked quietly.

Raven’s golden eyes flickered to him. “Feel what?”

He hesitated, his jaw tightening, the bond between them humming with something unsettled. “Something’s coming.”

Raven
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