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Chapter Twenty
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The Binding Chapter 107
The Valley ChangesSaxaNo one moves after the creature speaks.The valley seems to freeze around us. Snow drifts slowly through the clearing, glowing faintly silver where the threads burn beneath the ground.The malformed wolf lies motionless at the creature's feet, his breath ragged but growing more steady.Alive.That should feel like a relief, but it doesn’t.Because the thing kneeling beside him just fixed something none of us understood.And it did effortlessly.Eirik steps forward carefully. Every muscle in his body is tense.Protective.Ready to kill if he has to.The creature turns its silver eyes toward him.Not hostile.Just watching.Learning. The threads around its hands dim slowly.Gran drops beside the injured wolf immediately, her hands trembling as she checks his pulse.“He’s stable,” she whispers.Ingrid stares at the creature. “You just… healed him?”The creature tilts its head slightly.“he … tearing.”Its voice sounds smoother now.Less broken.Like every word tea
The Binding Chapter 106
The Ones Who WonderSaxaThe creatures don’t stop at the ridge, that’s the first thing that goes wrong.The second is the wolves.Because the moment the boundary pulses again, every wolf in the clearing reacts.Not together, differently.Tobin doubles over first. A sharp curse tears from his throat as he grabs the side of his head. Two others behind him stumble backward violently, claws ripping halfway through their fingertips before snapping back.Ingrid’s eyes widen. “What the hell?”Another pulse rolls through the valley, the threads flare yet again. And somewhere deeper in the forest—Wolves start howling.Not one.Not two.But dozens.My stomach drops. Eirik hears it too, his head jerking to the treeline instantly.“That’s not patrol.”“No,” Kaia says quietly. Her eyes remaining fixed on the mountain, “it’s spreading.”The words settle cold in my chest, because I can feel it now. The system isn’t centered in the clearing anymore.The threads are moving outward, through the valley
The Binding Chapter 105
Chapter 105: The Boundary that BreaksSaxaThe mountain stops waiting, the moment the thought finishes forming in my mind—The heart pulses again.Hard.The shockwave rolls through the valley like thunder trapped under stone. Snow bursts from the ridge in glittering clouds. The threads beneath the clearing flare so bright the ground looks like it’s made of fractured starlight.Elias gasps, “Okay, yeah, that might be worse.”The glyph beneath his shirt begins burning again, not violently like before. But just as intense. Ike the system just grabbed hold of him and refused to let go. Gran tightens her grip on his shoulder. “You cannot keep channeling this much power.”Elias lets out a strained laugh. “Pretty sure the mountain isn’t asking for my permission.”The creatures on the ridge begin moving again, but differently this time. Not all toward the heart.Some stop, turn.Looking back towards the clearing, toward me.The threads react instantly.Every glowing strand connected to those
The Binding Chapter 104
The Heart's CommandSaxaSaxaThe pull becomes unbearable.Not immediately.Not violently.It builds.Like a tide dragging everything in the valley slowly toward the same point.The mountain.The threads tighten beneath the snow, glowing lines stretching toward the ridge like veins leading back to a single beating heart.Elias stumbles beside me.“Okay—yeah—definitely feeling that now.”His voice is strained but steadier than it was earlier.The glyph beneath his shirt burns bright silver.Not tearing him apart anymore.Guiding him.Gran notices immediately.“That’s wrong.”Kaia’s gaze flicks toward Elias.“No.”Her voice is quiet.“It’s functioning.”Gran turns on her sharply.“Functioning?”Kaia gestures toward the ridge where the light continues to pour from the split seam in the mountain.“The system is completing its alignment.”The threads pulse again.Harder.The pull inside my chest sharpens.My breath catches.Because now I can feel direction inside it.Not random.Not chaoti
The Binding Chapter 103
The Pull of the HeartSaxaThe mountain stops roaring.That is somehow worse.The sudden silence spreads across the valley like a held breath, the kind that comes just before something breaks.The threads beneath the snow tighten.All of them.Not violently.Not chaotically.Deliberately.Like something enormous just wrapped its fingers around every line of power running through the valley.Elias inhales sharply beside me.“…that’s new.”The glyph beneath his shirt pulses again, brighter than before but steadier than it had been when the system was tearing him apart.This time the light doesn’t flare outward.It pulls.The threads react instantly.Every glowing strand shifts direction.Toward the mountain.The creatures standing in the clearing feel it too.The seven that turned toward me stiffen, their silver eyes snapping toward the ridge as the pull tightens through the system.The others—those already walking toward the mountain—don’t hesitate.They begin moving faster.Not runnin
The Binding Chapter 102
The First VoiceSaxaThe mountain does not like what I just did. It lands in my chest a heartbeat before the sound follows. The roar that rolls down the ridge this time isn’t the deep mechanical pulse we’ve been feeling all night. It’s sharper. Angrier. Like the mountain itself has just realized someone grabbed the wrong lever inside its machinery. Snow slides from the trees along the slope. The threads beneath the valley flare so bright they cast silver shadows across the clearing.Half the creatures remain pointed toward the mountain. Half now face me.Waiting, Listening. The line has broken.Kasper sees it instantly. “You have no idea what you’re interfering with,” he says. His voice is quieter now.Not calm.Measured. The kind of tone someone uses when they’re trying very hard not to panic.I tilt my head slightly. “You mean your plan?”His jaw tightens. “This is not a game.”“No,” I agree softly. “It’s not.”The threads hum beneath my palms again, the sensation crawling up my arms
The Binding Chapter Fifty Nine
The Hunt BeginsSaxaThe forest doesn’t settle after a scream.It holds the barren sounds in its bones, lets it echo until even the birds forget how to sing properly again. The wards around the house hum low and tight, stretched thin like sinew pulled too far, and every few seconds I can feel the gl
The Binding Chapter Fifty Eight
The Wolf at the DoorSaxaThe first thing I do is check my hand.I’m still in Eirik’s bed. The ceiling beams are exactly where they were, the blankets still heavy over my legs, the air still thick with the ghost of strom and smoke.But my heart is going feral in my chest, the glyph in my palm is qui
The Binding Chapter Fifty Seven
The Dream That Wasn’tSaxaThe house is quiet.The kind that feels aware.Like the walls are listening, like the wards are holding their breath around me.Eirik left mere moments ago.I hear the front door slam, hear the muffled voices of two wolves outside falling into formation around the porch.P
The Binding Chapter Fifty Six
The Weight of What We WokeSaxaEirik leaves before the sun even clears the tree line.I feel it before I hear it—the shift in the house, the subtle quiet that settles when his presence pulls away from the bond just enough to keep me from panicking while he does whatever he does.He kisses my forehe
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