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Rhydan’s POV“Aurenya!”Her body arched violently in his arms.Silver light burst beneath her skin in sharp flashes, illuminating the entire clearing as the wards screamed around them.Not metaphorically.Actually screamed.The sound ripped through the camp like something alive being skinned apart.Every wolf nearby staggered instinctively.Several dropped to one knee.The noise clawed through bone.Through thought.Through instinct.Kaelor grabbed Lyssara immediately as the child nearly collapsed beside the cabin steps.“She’s connected to it again.”Draven’s expression darkened instantly. “No.”His gaze locked sharply onto Aurenya.“Something else is.”Rhydan tightened his hold around her immediately. “Fix it.”“She’s inside the separation space,” Draven snapped back. “I can’t pull her out if she doesn’t release it.”Another pulse exploded outward.Harder this time.The ground beneath the ward line cracked violently.Silver symbols burned bright across the dirt before splitting apar

Rhydan’s POV“No.”The word came out before Rhydan even thought it.Aurenya’s hand was still wrapped around his wrist.But she wasn’t holding him anymore.She was holding onto something else through him.Her gaze stayed locked on the figure at the edge of the clearing.The one that looked like her shadow given flesh.Whole.Wrongly whole.Arinya shifted slightly in front of them again, small body tense like a drawn blade. “Mama…?”Aurenya didn’t answer.Not immediately.Her eyes flickered once toward her daughter—and something soft almost broke through.Almost.Then the thing in the forest tilted its head.And that softness vanished.Rhydan felt it before anyone spoke.The bond inside Aurenya reacted like a struck nerve.A pulse rippled outward.The wards screamed again.Kaelor staggered slightly. “It’s not attacking.”Draven’s voice was flat. “It doesn’t need to.”Lyssara suddenly lifted her head in Kaelor’s arms.Her voice came out fragile again—but clearer than before.“It’s remem

Rhydan’s POV“No.”Rhydan moved before thought.His arm snapped tighter around Aurenya, pulling her back into his chest like he could physically anchor her soul in place.The shadow’s hand stopped mid-air.Not because it hesitated.Because something in Rhydan’s movement had… registered.Like it recognized resistance.Aurenya’s breath hitched sharply. “Rhydan…”“I said no,” he repeated, voice low now. Dangerous in a different way. “You are not taking her.”The shadow finally looked at him.Really looked.And for the first time—its expression shifted.Not anger.Not amusement.Recognition.“You think I’m taking her,” it said softly.Rhydan didn’t answer.Kaelor stepped forward slightly, Lyssara still in his arms. “Rhydan, don’t escalate this.”“I’m not escalating anything,” Rhydan snapped. “I’m stopping it.”Arinya stood firmly in front of them again, fists clenched so tight her small arms trembled.“No one is taking Mama,” she said again.But her voice shook this time.Not fear.Press

Rhydan’s POVThe white didn’t fade.It stayed.Not like light.Like absence.Rhydan couldn’t feel the ground under him for a few seconds, like reality had forgotten to reattach itself properly after the explosion.Then sound returned first.Arinya coughing.Kaelor swearing under his breath.Lyssara crying out once—sharp, disoriented.But Aurenya—Aurenya was gone from where she stood.Rhydan shot forward instantly. “Aurenya!”Nothing.Only a faint silver distortion where she had been.Like the air was still remembering her shape.Draven stood perfectly still.Too still.Kaelor’s voice was tight. “Tell me that didn’t just complete.”Draven didn’t answer immediately.That silence was worse than any confirmation.Then—“It began,” Draven said.Rhydan turned on him instantly. “Begun?”His voice cracked.“Where is she?”Draven’s gaze finally shifted slightly.Not to the clearing.Not to Rhydan.To the distortion.“She is not in one place anymore.”Arinya took a step forward. “What does tha

Kaelor’s POVThe moment “You” was spoken back at her, Kaelor felt the shift in reality like a blade turning inside the air.This wasn’t a fight anymore.It was reconciliation.And that was far more dangerous.Aurenya stood in the center of the clearing, silver light no longer flickering beneath her skin but flowing like a second bloodstream.Opposite her stood the other self.The missing half.The split made flesh.And between them—the bond.It pulsed like a living thing trying to decide whether it wanted to exist as one or remain torn forever.Kaelor raised a hand instinctively, trying to stabilize the field around them.The energy collapsed again.Useless.Everything was becoming irrelevant except them.Rhydan pushed himself up from the ground, coughing sharply. “Aurenya!”But she didn’t look at him.Not really.Her eyes were locked on the other version of herself like everything else had been removed from existence.“I didn’t ask for this,” Aurenya whispered.The other Aurenya til