Alara’s POVAs the wolves were cut free, Lucian tried to close the gate, but failed.That was the first mistake. Or maybe it was inevitable.Lucian had opened it cleanly — a precise seam carved through air and stone, shadow folding back like fabric pulled between worlds. Artemis had stabilized it with her light.When the last of the silver-threaded wolves fell free of whatever ancient tether had held them, Lucian pulled inward, trying to seal what he had opened.The seam shuddered instead of obeying him.“Lucian,” I warned.“I’m closing it,” he insisted.The shadow edges trembled, warping unnaturally as if something on the other side pressed back.Then the air tore wider. Cold poured through first — absence. The kind that swallowed sound before it formed.Marcus roared and lunged forward, but he was a heartbeat too late.Something slipped through. Not wolves. Not men. Not anything that belonged to our world.They moved like distortions in space — tall, wrong-limbed silhouettes edged i
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