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70: The First Strike

Author: Solange Daye
last update publish date: 2026-03-08 05:11:37

Gaven

War begins the way storms do. Not with thunder but with pressure.

It builds slowly for days in the form of border disturbances, missing patrols, and scouts reporting unfamiliar scents lingering too long along the ridge. Nothing decisive. Nothing official, but every wolf in Blackmoor feels it.

Riddick has been restless since dawn. ‘They’re coming,’ he murmurs inside my mind.

“I know,” I mutter under my breath.

The war table is covered in fresh reports when Wesley storms into my office wi
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