The next day,The journey toward St. Louis was a grueling trek through a country that no longer recognized itself, but the true battlefield remained within the reinforced walls of their moving transport. To survive the coming assault on the Hive, Evangeline couldn't just be a passenger or a battery; she had to become a practitioner.In the cramped, lead-lined rear of the "Shadow-Hauler," Xander sat across from her. Between them, the Acoustic Prism glowed with a restless, flickering light, its sapphire hue occasionally sparking with sharp, electrical whites. The air was thick with the scent of hot copper and the low-frequency hum of the stabilizers."The Prism is a lock, Eva," Xander said, his voice dropping into the resonant chest-tone of the Alpha. "But the key isn't a password or a chemical formula. It’s a Cipher, the original language of the Wyrd, and you have to breathe it before you can speak it."Xander wasn't a musician by trade, but his lycanthropy granted him a primal underst
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