Ten years passed.For long-lived werewolves, it was the blink of an eye. For Axel, it was 3,650 days and nights of burning in hell.Under Axel's rule, the Shadowcrest pack swallowed every neighboring pack and became the sole power across the wasteland.No one dared speak the name 'Seraphina'. No one dared to approach the tattered tent at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, where snow and wind never ceased. It was forbidden ground, the den of the mad wolf Axel....This day brought the worst blizzard of the season. It was also the date carved into Axel's bones. It was his birthday and the anniversary of Seraphina's death.An old courier knelt trembling outside the tent."Alpha... This is a package a lady left with us ten years ago. She paid ten times the normal fee and specified it be delivered to you today."Axel emerged from the tent. Ten years of weathering had streaked his temples with white, but his eyes remained as lifeless as they had been a decade ago.He took the package
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