Kades pov“Get the warriors ready just in case”Those were the last words Darius had said to me after he sneaked away from Seraphine who had still been unconscious..The wind had turned sharp by the time I crossed the southern forest line.It carried something with it.. Not just cold, not just the scent of distant rain.. Something wrong.I slowed my horse instinctively, my fingers tightening around the reins as my gaze swept across the tree line. The forest stretched ahead in thick silence, the kind that pressed against your ears until your instincts began to scream.I exhaled slowly.“Easy boy..,” I muttered under my breath, though I was not sure if I was speaking to the horse or myself.Darius’s orders echoed in my mind.‘Return to Clawfrost.. Prepare the warriors.’At the time, it had sounded like caution.. Now it felt like something else entirely.I nudged the horse forward, slower this time, my eyes scanning the ground as habit took over. Every broken twig, every shift in the di
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