**KELLY THOMPSON'S POV**The goddess's song was a serpent-smooth, seductive, coiled in the marrow of our bones. It began in whispers: a hum beneath the wind, a sigh in the rustle of leaves. By the time we recognized its pull, it had already sunk fangs into the pack.The first to falter was Kael. I found him at dusk, staring into the forest with milky eyes, his claws buried in the trunk of an oak. "Can't you hear her?" he rasped. "She's *everywhere*." Blood dripped from his ears as he tore at the bark, carving jagged runes only he understood.Isolde called it the *Eclipse Sickness*. "The goddess's melody is a key," she warned, her hands trembling as she scrubbed Kael's symbols from the walls. "It's unlocking something primal in us-memories, hungers, *regrets*."Eden, ever resilient, scoffed. "We survived the Crone. This is just noise." But that night, I caught him kneeling by the grove, his palms pressed to the earth. Rhydian stood guard, his new scar flickering like a muted star. "It'
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