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Chapter 96

Haden He looked at the sigil like he could burn it out with his eyes alone. When he spoke, it was with the kind of control that hurts to keep. “You can copy a Honshu’s ink if you’ve seen it and survived it. You can’t hold it unless you feed it.” “Feed it what,” Keiral asked. “Blood,” he said. “Or bond. There isn’t a third option.” Ellan’s mouth was a hard line. “Who has seen your ink.” “Anyone who’s tried to kill me,” Krav said. His eyes finally cut to me. “Or anyone I’ve let close enough.” My hands closed before I could stop them. “You saying she—” He stepped in fast, too close, heat coming off him like a warning. “Say her name like that again and you and I will find a room without glass.” Ellan slid between us with a look. “Back off. Both of you.” Deni’s voice came in on a whisper. “Movement. Two floors down. Vent stair.” Ellan’s focus snapped to the hall. He pointed me left. “Cut down and take the landing. Krav, with me. We squeeze him.” We moved. I took the stairs two

Chapter 97

Ashlyn The kitchen smelled like onions, bleach, and wet rags. I was elbow-deep in stock take, counting bags of rice and stacked cans while an auntie read numbers off a clipboard like a judge.“Fifty-two,” she said.“Fifty-three,” I corrected, holding up the last can. She grunted, made a note, and moved me to the oil shelf.I was halfway through liters when the door slammed open so hard a ladle jumped out of a pot. A pup skidded across the tile, socks sliding, eyes wide.“Big blue dragon,” he blurted. “Outside. Big.”The auntie hissed. “No running in my kitchen.”I dropped the marker and went. The pup pivoted and ran again. We cut through the back hall and hit the south yard at a sprint.Heads were up everywhere. Sentinels at the fence. Two trainees on the track stopped mid-lap. Pups at the gate went quiet. The sky over the ridge tore with a sound you feel in your ribs before you hear it. Blue and bright cut a line across the gray.Catan.He banked once over the yard, a clean arc, the

Chapter 98

Ashlyn “In one piece,” I said. “Four wolves assigned to toilet duty and homework for a week.” His brows ticked. “Those sound like punishments.” “They earned them at Rave de la my ass.” The big yard stayed noisy, but the noise was wrong for a second. Like the air hiccupped. Sheetal lifted her head inside me. Krav’s eyes cut to the left. We both scanned the fence line at the same time. Nothing obvious. The feeling passed. “We can talk inside,” I said. “Not here.” He nodded. The towel was still in his hand. He tossed it back to the auntie. She caught it without looking and threw a shirt at his face. He pulled it on as we walked. “Everyone back to work,” I said to the yard. “Now.” The Sentinels moved. The pups groaned. The aunties smiled into their cups. We cut through the hall and took the stairs two flights down to a storage room with a long metal table and a bad light. It was quiet enough. I shut the door. “Say it again,” I said. “Honshu lock,” he said. “Hidden in the vent

Chapter 99

Ashlyn I braced my hands on the table. The metal was cold and dirty and real. “We pull the shard. We break the lock. We hunt the source.” “Say that again,” he said, something mean and pleased in his tone. “We hunt the source.” A knock hit the door. Mira walked in without waiting, saw Krav, raised an eyebrow, and didn’t comment. “Haden knows there’s a dragon in the yard,” she said. “He says hi in that special way he has that isn’t a hi.” “Later,” I said. “He also says Gordon wants everyone on a shared line in twenty,” she added. “Bears called in a noise from the east wall last night. Nothing on cams.” “Of course they have nothing on cams,” I muttered. Mira leaned against the door, arms crossed. “You two done growling at each other?” “We weren’t growling,” I said. “You were,” she said. “It was hot. Anyway. We going or we standing here and making eyes until the world ends.” Krav looked at me. I didn’t look away. “We’re going,” I said. He nodded once. “I’m not leaving the Towe

Chapter 100

Haden Panther Tower looked like it had been wiped down twice already and it was barely past six. Glasses neatly packed on the table. Food placed neatly everywhere. Benches set in rows like ranks. Screens on the far wall scrolled night-shift logs no one at our table was reading. The smell was eggs, toast, and that strong bitter coffee the panthers and humans loved.We were still here. Another night without a clean lead. Two fox shifters on a slab. Rafe in cold storage. A kid sleeping two floors down because her parents were left in a cave. And a mark burned behind a vent plate like it was a freaking Armageddon. Ellan sat at the head, his back straight as he gobbled his breakfast. Food gone in five minutes like it was gas. Adrian stacked a second plate, chewing through it like he could outrun fatigue with meat. Keiral picked at a plate of fruit, a pen behind her ear and a legal pad she wouldn’t let anyone else touch. Lechandray talked. If there was air, she filled it.I pushed a spoo

Chapter 101

Haden Keiral flicked to another page. “Blood work confirmed the same extraction signature. It’s not volume drain. It’s functional. The mesh is stripped. We are calling it Honshu work until someone proves otherwise.” Adrian grimaced. “We’re saying that in the report.” “We already did,” she said. “Good,” he said. “I’m tired of calling it density like a lab tech in denial.” Lechandray chewed and watched me. “We also need to be honest about who, not just what.” “Stop,” I said. “I said honest, not stupid,” she said. “We all know Krav’s mark is on that plate. We also know he didn’t put it there. Which leaves us with someone who can copy a signature that should be uncopyable.” “The options were blood or bond,” Keiral said. “He said that himself. There isn’t a third.” Adrian put his fork down. “No one in this room is saying her name in this context. If you do, I walk out.” I didn’t move. “I’m not.” Lechandray looked me over, hunting for something she could trust. She must have fou

Chapter 102

Ashlyn The Den had finally gone quiet. The kitchen noise, the steps in the hall, even Mira and the pups had settled. I shut the last door, leaned on it for a second, and breathed.Krav was stretched out on the couch like he owned the place. One leg bent, one hanging off the side, his blue hair messy, eyes catching light from the screen even though he wasn’t watching it. The TV rolled some old human movie neither of us cared about.“You’re supposed to be resting,” I said, walking in.He tilted his head, eyes dragging over me. “I am.”“That doesn’t look like rest. That looks like brooding.”“Maybe I’m good at multitasking.” His voice had that lazy weight he only used when it was just the two of us.I crossed the room, hips swaying without thinking. His eyes followed. He noticed. He always noticed. I sat on the far end of the couch, not touching him. He didn’t move.“Tell me about your dream,” I said.He didn’t look away. “You were there.”“Of course I was.” I smirked. “What was I doing

Chapter 103

Ashlyn The Den was loud, and I hated that it was loud. Pups screaming, running across the floor like it was a damn training ground, not a living space. The aunties let them because it kept them busy. I was halfway through sorting the food rotation, barking orders at two of the teenagers, when the sharp sound of a body hitting stone made me spin.It wasn’t a pup. It was Mira.She was on the ground by the hall, clutching her head, face white like she’d been drained. I dropped the list, moved fast. “Get back,” I snapped at the kids. “Now.”Carl came around the corner, patrol gear still strapped, eyes wide. He saw her, bent, lifted her up like she weighed nothing. “She just dropped,” he said. “No warning.”“Bring her,” I ordered, already moving toward the back room. “Clear out, all of you!”The pups scattered, some whining, some too curious until I gave them a glare that cut it off. Carl carried Mira in, set her down on the bed. She looked wrong. Sweat across her forehead, lips cracked,

Chapter 104

KeiralPanther Tower’s med wing was too clean. The lights were set to morning even though it felt like night in my bones. I had two charts open and three more in my head. Tio’s vitals ran flat on the wall. The fox child slept two rooms over. My coffee sat cold, untouched.I heard Ellan before I saw him. That low, steady step. No rush. No wasted motion. He didn’t knock. He never did.He stopped in the doorway and didn’t say hello. He watched me write. It took eight seconds to make my skin crawl.“Do you mind?” I asked without looking up.“No.”“Then stop standing there like a statue and say what you came to say.”He came in, let the door seal, and leaned against the counter that wasn’t meant for leaning. He crossed his arms. Calm. Panther calm.“How’s the boy?” he asked.“Stabilized,” I said. “Shard let go for now. Dampener helps.”“For now,” he repeated.“Don’t echo me,” I snapped. “You want the pretty version, call the PR desk. He’s clear for the hour. After that, we’ll see.”He didn

Chapter 105

Keiral “I’m telling you to be smarter than the people who like rules more than outcomes.”“Now you’re speaking my language.”We stood too close again and both of us knew it. My pulse was up. I hated that he could see it in my throat.“Krav,” he said.“What about him.”“He’s steady until he isn’t,” Ellan said. “He reads a room and removes himself from it. Good. But the minute something uses his ink or touches a kid, the restraint snaps.”“He wants to fix it alone,” I said.“He wants to carry it alone,” Ellan corrected.“Same difference,” I said. “It kills him either way.”He looked at me like he wanted me to keep going. So I did. “If you try to put Krav on a leash, he’ll cut it. If you give him a route, he’ll take it. He respects clean plans and clean lines. He has no patience for peacocking or politics. If Haden starts chesting up, Krav will ignore it until he doesn’t. At that point he leaves. And if he leaves, Ashlyn follows. Then your plan is trash.”Ellan absorbed it, no argument.

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