Mag-log inIrene's POV
The camp was dead quiet as we walked back.
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Irene's POVBattle was nothing like the stories.No glory. No heroic speeches. Just blood and teeth and the desperate scramble to stay alive long enough to kill the thing trying to kill you.Karson's gray wolf tore through the enemy lines like a natural disaster. Massive. Brutal. Every snap of his jaws ended a life. Every swipe of his claws opened flesh. He fought with a savagery
Irene's POVThe front lines were worse than I'd imagined.Bodies littered the ground. Ours and theirs, tangled together in death. The smell hit me first—blood and smoke and something else, something wrong. A sour, burnt odor that made my wolf recoil.Blood magic. I could smell it on the enemy wolves. Could see it in the way they moved—too fast, too strong, their eyes g
Irene's POVOn the sixth day, I could sit up without the world spinning.Small victory. But I'd take it.My wolf was back too. Not fully—she still felt sluggish, like she was wading through mud—but present. Real. The glass wall between us had finally shattered.
Irene's POVBeing bedridden was its own kind of torture.Three days. Three days of staring at the same canvas ceiling. The same wooden beams. The same crack in the corner that looked vaguely like a rabbit if I squinted hard enough.The healer visited twice daily to check my progress. The poison was leaving my system, she said. Slowly. Stubbornly. Like an unwanted guest who refused
Irene's POVThe healer's tent smelled like blood and panic.Mine, mostly. The blood part, anyway. The panic belonged to everyone else—the healers rushing around, shouting instructions I couldn't follow, their hands moving too fast for my blurred vision to track.Someone cut away my sleeve. The air hit the wound and I hissed through my teeth.
Irene's POVThe venom worked fast.Cold spread through my veins from the wound. My arm had gone numb, blood still streaming down to the stone floor in thick rivulets.I stumbled backward. My legs felt wrong. Unsteady. Like they belonged to someone else entirely.







