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Chapter 19

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General's (Eric's) P.O.V

I had caught a glimpse of her but before I could even look properly, it was an attack from all sides.

It was always like that.

Take down the head and the body would fall.

As I fought with not much dedication to the battle, I saw them retreating and could clearly see her holding another commander whom I could recognise from the armor she wore.

My scouts had whispered of her dwindling forces, of her pack fighting with desperation, of numbers slipping from her grasp, but, Yewa was the kind of commander who turned desperation into fire, who bit down harder when the world tried to force her to yield.

You may wonder how I knew her name but I did my research the second I got back after seeing her.

I did not believe she would ever bow. That was what made me march that day with an emptiness in my chest, prepared for another bloody push to finally crush what remained of her resistance.

As we searched through the woods, in the direction they had retreated to, I heard s
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    The night after the council’s teeth had bared at me, I made my decision.If I left Yewa among the tribe, she would be torn apart before dawn. Not by decree, not by my order, but by their own restless fear. My warriors were predators, yes, but predators ruled by superstition as much as bloodlust. To them, sparing a war prisoner longer than a day was sacrilege. To them, Yewa’s presence alive in the camp was a wound festering poison.They would kill her behind my back if I let her out of my sight. And worse, if they succeeded, I could not punish them without confirming what they already suspected: that she mattered too much.So I brought her into my den.It was an act I disguised with cold cruelty, a performance carved from stone. In the open, before the army and their sneering commanders, I said what they needed to hear:“Death is mercy to a wolf like her. Why give her what she craves? No. Let her rot where she cannot escape. Let her learn what it means to serve the hand that conquere

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