The moon had dimmed, but it had not disappeared. It watched from behind a veil of thin clouds, not hidden exposed. As if it no longer had the strength to pretend it was above the blood below.Kaela had not slept.Neither had Sira.The glade was quiet now, but not peaceful. The scent of burned leaves still clung to the air. The silence wasn’t calm. It was the kind that came when everything sacred had cracked and the world was too afraid to move.Kaela sat by the cold fire, staring into the ash.Sira stood beside her, arms crossed, gaze fixed on the path Fenric had taken.“He’s still inside the thread,” Kaela said, her voice dry, hollow around the edges.Sira nodded. “And the longer he stays, the harder it will be for him to come back.”Kaela didn’t answer.The branches above shifted slightly, though no wind touched them. Somewhere in the distance, an owl called once sharp, brief, then gone. A warning, not a song.“I keep thinking,” Kaela said, after a long pause, “what if we were wrong
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