The moonstone breathed under her feet.So did the crowd.***For a moment, nothing moved.Then Gate Three woke.Silver rose from the heart of the dais in a slow, deliberate swell—like mist thickening, like a tide coming in. Elowen felt it gather around her ankles, climb her calves, her thighs, her spine, until her whole body hummed with it.Her aura, which had learned restraint and hush and the careful stillness of survival, did not flatten now.It expanded.Not in a blast.In a controlled, inevitable reach.Around the bowl, the effect was immediate.Wolves weren’t built to ignore Lunaris authority when it focused. Even the ones who hated her, who had called her witch and vessel and threat, were creatures of instinct before they were lawyers.A low murmur ran through the slopes and cut off as bodies stilled.Heads lifted, then dipped an inch without meaning to.Some claws unsheathed and then retracted, as if hands had forgotten what gesture they’d been making.On the observer platform
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