RosemaryAfter leaving Grace, Ethan and I made our way to the west wing, where Julie had been sheltering Aurora. The hallway was eerily quiet now, the hum of the battle already fading from the walls of the pack house like a distant memory. It was strange, the silence - after so much chaos, it almost felt wrong.Ethan pushed open the door gently, the soft creak of the hinges cutting through the stillness. Inside, the room was dimly lit by the golden wash of the afternoon sun filtering through the curtains. Julie sat in a rocking chair near the window, her posture relaxed but alert. Draped protectively across her lap, like the most delicate treasure, was Aurora.Aurora stirred, her small, gray eyes blinking up at us with quiet uncertainty. She looked at me, her tiny face framed by a cascade of unruly black curls, and for a moment, everything else, the battle, the grief, the exhaustion, melted away. All I could see was her, whole and safe.Julie offered me a tired but warm smile as I cro
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