CARDANThe cold, unforgiving air of the mountains scraped against my lungs. I rode hard, a phantom King moving through the darkness, leaving the relative safety of the Lycan Fortress far behind.My steed, Rage, a massive black Lycan-horse hybrid, tore across the broken landscape, his hooves kicking up clouds of frozen dust. I pushed him relentlessly, urging him north towards the jagged, forbidding peaks of the Iron Mountains.The weight of the decrees I had just passed felt like a physical ache in my chest. They were final declarations. They were my will, should I fail to return.I had wanted to see her. Gods, I had longed to simply hold her one last time, to feel the fragile warmth of her skin, to hear the fierce, familiar beat of her heart, now nurturing our love child. But I couldn't.If I had seen her face, felt her new, vulnerable weight in my arms, I wouldn't have had the strength to leave. She would have argued, she would have fought, and I would have broken. It was better this
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