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11: The Bite
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The Wolf's Game 71: The Bond She Can't Kill
KaelThe Silence Trial bleeds across the viewing mirror like a horrid memory.I shouldn’t be able to see her this clearly. Not through Nyxara’s magic. Not through the layers of mist and nightmare she’s wrapped the maze in.But the bond, the one Aria still doesn’t know how to name, cuts through everything. I can feel her pain just as easily as I can feel my own. It is so strong that my knees nearly buckle from the force of it. “Steady, little wolf,” Nyxara murmurs as she steps around me. “You look unwell.”She is composed again. Her hair is braided into a crown, her dress is immaculate, and her skin is uncracked. But I can see through it all. She is merely a goddess pretending she’s whole.But even she can’t hide the edges of her decay anymore. Magic leaks around her like smoke from a dying fire.I ignore her and grip the edge of the mirror, fingers digging into the stone frame as Aria appears. She is alone now, moving through the last corridor of the Silence Trial. Her step
The Wolf's Game 70: The Last Sound She Ever Makes
AriaThe shadows press in around us like wolves scenting blood. Elyra and I stand shoulder to shoulder, silent, breath thin and controlled, every heartbeat thudding like a thunder that we’re terrified the maze might somehow hear.Her arm brushes mine, reminding me that we are in this together. I cling to that, even as the mist writhes and shapes itself into more of those twisting, half-formed silhouettes.They surround us, but they don’t attack. Not at first. They are waiting. Feeding off our fear.Elyra lifts her dagger again, jaw tight, eyes blazing with the stubborn flame that kept her alive this long. Blood trickles from the bite wound on her lip, but she keeps her mouth clamped shut.She doesn’t make a sound. She is not ready to surrender. Not yet.My wolf flickers weakly inside me. Violet’s faint presence is like an echo being carried on the wind. It is not enough to guide me or to protect me. But it is enough to remind me I’m not completely hollow.One of the shadows f
The Wolf's Game 69: His Voice
AriaI hit the ground hard, but it is not the ground I expect. It is not made of stone or mist. My knees hit soft earth, and cool, not cold, air swirls around me. The full moon shines down on a scene that I have tried too hard to forget.No. No, not this place.My stomach lurches as the world sharpens around me. It is the same clearing, the same altar, the same silver light that witnessed the worst moment of my life.Jasper Pack lands, and my mating ceremony. This is the night Riven rejected me.Except, it’s wrong. Everything is too bright, too still, and too silent. Everyone stands frozen mid-breath, mid-motion, mid-judgment like carved statues painted in flesh tones.Riven stands atop the altar steps, his shoulders drawn tight, his jaw set, too familiar, too perfect, staring down at me.Waiting to speak the words that shattered me once. My pulse stutters.“This isn’t real,” I whisper.The maze doesn’t allow sound, but here in the hallucination, my voice echoes strangely,
The Wolf's Game 68: The Silence Inside
AriaThe moment Elyra and I step into the mist, the silence thickens. Before, it was oppressive. Now it becomes absolute.Every sound, every inhale, every exhale, every rustle of clothing is swallowed whole the instant it forms. The air here is so quiet it feels alive, as if it’s pressing its cold, damp hands over my ears.Elyra’s hand trembles in mine, and mine trembles back. We move forward together, slow and careful, our boots disappearing into the dense fog swirling around our ankles.The walls of the maze shift beyond the mist. It is only faint outlines, only glimpses of what should be there, but the silence is so complete it feels like we’re stepping into a void with no world beyond it.My pulse thuds in my throat.‘Violet?’ I reach for my wolf’s mind, reaching for that familiar spark, that steady, fierce heartbeat that has been there since I turned eighteen, but I am met with more silence. There is nothing in my mind but my own thoughts. A cold jolt shoots through me.
The Wolf's Game 67: The Goddess Appears
AriaThe door slams behind us with a force that makes my ears ring, not with sound, but with the absence of it. The silence here is wrong. It is dense and smothering, like the air itself has forgotten how to carry noise. It is the kind of silence that could make a person go crazy if left in it for too long. Elyra grips my hand so tightly that my bones ache.“Aria,” she whispers. I feel the shape of the word more than I hear it. “I don’t think we’re alone.”She’s right. Just then the mist thickens around us, rising from the floor like breath from a dying creature. It coils around our ankles, our legs, swirling in unnatural patterns. The faint glow of my mark is the only light.Then, the mist shivers, and tears open. A woman steps through. A woman that I have only seen once before but her face is engrained in my memories.Nyxara.Except she doesn’t look like Nyxara who appeared before me and stole Kael from my arms. The goddess who materializes before us is… fractured.Her once-
The Wolf's Game 66: The Castle Screams
AriaThe parchment with my mother’s handwriting still feels warm against my skin as Elyra and I leave the archive room, but the moment we step into the hallway, something is wrong. The air tastes metallic, the torches flicker with a frantic rhythm, and the floor shudders like the castle is moments from collapsing.Elyra freezes. “Aria… do you feel that?”I nod. I feel it everywhere: in my bones, in my teeth, and mostly in the mark on my arm, which pulses with alarm.The castle trembles again, harder. A long crack splits down the nearest wall, shedding grains of stone like falling sand.Elyra swears under her breath. “She’s losing control.”“No,” I say quietly. “She’s breaking.”And the Game is breaking with her. My chest tightens as something ripples through the air. A shock. A pulse. Like the moment lightning hits the earth before you hear the thunder.Elyra grips my arm. “Aria. Listen to me. If this place collapses…”“It won’t.” Because I won’t let it.Not until Kael is out.
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