POV: LunaThree months had passed since the entity's transformation. Three months since the dual mate bond had finalized. Three months since everything changed.Summer at Silverwood had been quiet. Too quiet. The kind of quiet that made you wonder what was building in the silence.I stood on the balcony of my dorm room, watching the sun set over the academy grounds. The wards shimmered faintly in the fading light, stronger than ever before. The artifact fragments were fully integrated into my Eclipse mark now, humming with controlled power instead of chaotic energy.Through the mate bond, I felt Liam approaching before I heard his footsteps. He'd spent the summer coordinating with territory representatives, building the alliance that had formed around Silverwood. Building the future we'd fought so hard to protect."You're thinking too hard again," he said, wrapping his arms around me from behind."Someone has to.""That someone doesn't always have to be you."Through the bond, I felt
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