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Pixie Snow* About the symbols of Old Tongue. Writing this chapter I thought about something like Gallifreyan. More complex in the meaning and not taking so much space - whole sentences would. - Pixie
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The Rejected Queen 35.
Damon POVThe knock hit the door like a blow.Fast. Urgent.Rayna and I tore apart like we’d been burned - her chest heaving, my hands still tingling from the feel of her skin, her lips red from the kiss I’d sworn I wouldn’t give her. My wolf howled inside me, furious at the interruption.I was about to snarl something at whoever dared to interrupt us - but then the door slammed open before I could reach it.Thorne stood there. Breathless. Mud on his boots, his eyes wild.“We found them.”My pulse spiked. Rayna moved beside me, already tense.“Found who?”“Patrol Alpha Seven,” Thorne said. “Or what’s left of them.”The words hit like ice water.“Where?”“Half a mile east of the river bend,” he said. “North trail. Near the old ash grove.”That was close. Too close.Thorne swallowed hard. “They weren’t just killed. They were...”He stopped. Looked at Rayna. Then at me. His jaw clenched.“Drained,” he said finally. “Every one of them.”Rayna stepped forward. “Drained how?”Thorne didn’t
The Rejected Queen 34.
Rayna POVSome things feel more dangerous than the blade. Like his hand on my lower back, steady. Reluctant. Warm.The camp was quiet as we walked.Too quiet.Not just the normal lull after training or meals - this was the heavy, loaded silence that follows when something cracks wide open and everyone’s waiting to see what bleeds out.The few wolves we passed looked at us like they were seeing ghosts. Or worse - omens.No one spoke.Damon stayed half a step behind me, his presence a shadow just brushing mine. He didn’t speak either. But the weight of him was there - the tension in his shoulders, the careful restraint in the way his fingers hovered near mine and never quite touched.And gods, I could still feel him. His kiss burned on my lips like a secret I didn’t know how to keep.The way he’d pulled me back from the edge, touched me like he hated every second of it - and still hadn’t stopped.My ribs ached. Not from the fall or the bruises. From the way something inside me kept pres
The Rejected Queen 33.
Rayna POV"His hands shouldn’t feel like safety. But gods, they do." I said to my wolf. This time she responded. Not with words, but with a soft growl of approvement.The cabin door creaked closed behind me, but I didn’t turn.I couldn’t.Not with him standing there, shadow-silent, the heat of his body already curling along the back of my neck.I stood in the middle of the room, fists still clenched. My shirt was torn at the shoulder, the sleeve sticky with blood. My palms were scraped raw, and I could still feel the faint echo of power in my veins - like something had reached up through the cracked stone and touched me.No. Claimed me.A temple buried in ash. Maddox’s snarling face. The wind that rose when I bled.Everything blurred in my chest like stormwater.Damon stepped forward. I didn’t move.He didn’t say anything at first - just crossed the room in slow, heavy steps. Like he thought I might bolt.Maybe I would’ve. If it were anyone else.“Let me see,” he said softly, nodding
The Rejected Queen 32.
Damon POVMaddox stirred.Of course this hound did. It would be to easy if he just stopped breathing, like one of his friends. I looked to the third wolf-brat. He was still breathing too. Whatever happend here was powerfull. My sight was back on Maddox. Blood trickled down his temple, but he was trying to sit up now, mumbling something slurred and senseless. One eye swollen shut. Breath wheezing through cracked ribs. Still alive.Too alive.Rayna stepped back when I moved. She didn’t stop me.“You had a choice,” I said, pacing toward him. “You could’ve stayed drunk and loud and stupid. But you dragged her out. You let others follow. You made her bleed.”He spat blood. “She’s cursed.”I didn’t say a word. I just broke his wrist.Maddox screamed - raw and high and short-lived, because I slammed his head into the stone again, this time not gentle. But not enough to kill him. Not yet. He will be an example.The other rogue - one of the cowards who’d helped him - whimpered in the dir
The Rejected Queen 31.
Damon POVI smelled her before I saw the blood. - That was the first crack in the dam.The second came when I rounded the longhouse and found Riven half-running toward me, eyes wide, jaw tight.“She’s gone.”I froze. “What?”“Rayna. Maddox took her.” He panted. “Couple of the newer rogues helped him. Said she was a threat. That she’d bring the Wild down on us.”My vision narrowed. Just Riven. Just the fire behind him. Just the roaring in my ears.“When?” My voice was low, deadly.“This night. After the council meeting. He was drunk, raving. Kael found the scent trail - it leads north, toward the ruins.”The ruins.I knew what was buried there. And I knew what would wake if blood hit that altar.“I’ll kill him,” I said. Calm. Certain.Riven reached out to stop me. I was already moving.“Damon, wait-”Too late.I shifted mid-stride, bones cracking, heat surging through me like fire caught wind. My wolf broke through in a burst of black and smoke. Rage-black. Storm-fast.The scent trail
The Rejected Queen 30.
Rayna POVThe fire had burned low. Damon was gone.I sat curled in the itchy wool blanket, breath shallow, chest tight. The bond still hummed like a blade under my skin. It hadn’t faded, no matter how hard I tried to smother it.Why did he leave like that? Why touch me like I mattered - then walk away like I didn’t?Oh. I got enough of this. He just messes with my mind. Again.The silence in the cabin wasn’t peace. It was suffocating.I needed air. Maybe I couldn't shift yet until my wolf will be fully okay, but walk should do the thing.I grabbed the cloak from the peg and wrapped it around my shoulders. The night air hit my skin like a slap - cold, sharp, real. Good. I welcomed it.The forest was quiet, too quiet.I only got a few steps past the porch before I heard it.“Out for a walk, little wolf?”I froze.The voice slurred slightly. Familiar. Maddox.He stepped out from the shadows, leaning against the cabin’s side like he belonged there. The moon caught the edge of a grin that
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