All Chapters of One Night,One Claim: Chapter 41 - Chapter 43

Obsidian Crown Citadel – The High Tower Elara’s POVThe Frostveil Seers arrived like ghosts carried on the first cold breath of dawn.Their sleds sliced through the snow outside the gates six wolves steaming, breath pluming white, cloaks stiff with two moons of frost and dried blood. Laura leapt down first, silver hair wild, eyes the color of frozen lakes already searching upward for us on the tower balcony. Korran followed more slowly, cane tapping stone, blind eye milky but his good eye sharp as ever.The great hall below had gone deathly still the moment they entered. Hundreds of wolves warriors, maids, elders, children parted without a word. Every eye tracked them up the winding stairs to where Rico and I stood.Rico’s hand was already crushing mine. Through the fresh mark on my throat I could feel his pulse hammering fear, fury, hope all tangled together.Laura didn’t bow. She stared first at the bite mark still red and swollen on my neck, then at the way Rico’s body curved inst

The Frostveil RouteDax’s POVThe moon was a thin silver blade overhead, barely enough to light the narrow, charred path north. The sleds cut through ash and snow wolves’ paws muffled, breaths pluming white in the dropping temperature. The air had turned sharper colder than it should be this far south of the Frostveil. Every inhale felt like swallowing glass.Flame slept against my chest bundled in furs her green light a soft, steady pulse. The vines that had crushed armies earlier were now thin and limp only a few tendrils still loosely wrapped around my wrists and Kael’s, as though even in sleep she was afraid to let go completely.Kael rode so close our knees brushed. Her silver eyes kept darting north scanning the darkness beyond the torchlight.“She’s too quiet,” she said voice low enough not to wake Flame. “Not just sleeping. It’s like she’s… listening.”I shifted Flame slightly pressed my lips to her forehead. She smelled of milk and fresh earth and something ancient something