KaelThe horn still echoes when I reach the border.The forest ahead is breathing wrong.Fog creeps low over the ground, thick and black, curling between roots like smoke that forgot how to rise. The scent of it turns my stomach — blood and iron and something older. The wolves behind me shift restlessly, claws scraping the earth.Lucian rides up beside me, his wolf half pressing through his skin, gold eyes flashing. “They’re close,” he says. “Too close.”I can feel it — a vibration in the ground, not hoofbeats, not paws, but magic. The forest remembers what’s coming.“Positions,” I growl.My warriors fan out in practiced precision — silent, deadly, loyal. For all their strength, I can feel the tremor in their bond. The witch’s presence licks across the air like frost on skin.Then the fog parts.And Garrick appears.He rides at the head of a column of wolves, armor dull and unpolished, eyes glinting with a madness that wasn’t there before. His aura is wrong. It bleeds shadow where it
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