The staircase of bone stretched downward in a curve too precise to be natural, yet too raw to have been carved by wolf hands. Each step bore etchings, not in glyphs or Pack script, but in symbols so jagged and primal they looked as though they had been scraped in by claw or fang, not for beauty, but for remembrance. The scent of the deep was not rot, not decay, but something colder, dust that had never been exposed to light, memories unspoken for so long they had hardened into stone.Fenric stepped first, his footfall silent, but the air shifted as if acknowledging him. Behind him, Sira moved slowly, her light subdued, no longer guiding, only observing. Kaela followed close, her eyes never leaving the curve ahead, every muscle alert, not from fear, but instinct. Raelin took the rear, her hand on the hilt of her blade, breath measured, focused.They descended in silence, and with every step, the thread inside Fenric changed. It no longer pulsed like a heartbeat. It flowed, slow and ste
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