Kael woke screaming.The sound ripped out of him like torn muscle, raw and feral, echoing across a forest that should not have existed.Moonlight filtered through skeletal branches overhead—too bright, too sharp, every shadow edged in silver. The ground beneath him was damp with frost and ash, the air humming faintly as if reality itself were vibrating at the wrong frequency.He clawed at his chest.The sigil was gone.In its place burned something worse.Not a mark.A core.It pulsed beneath his ribs like a second heart, beating out of rhythm with his own, each thud dragging memory and pain and power through his veins. He rolled onto his side, gasping, vision swimming as flashes slammed into him—Aria screaming his name.The Null collapsing.Lyris’ laughter splitting his skull.And beneath it all—A door.Opening.Kael forced himself upright, teeth bared as another wave hit him. His wolf surged, not in panic, but in recognition. In reverence.You feel it too, Kael thought, horrified.
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