AURELIAN POV:The mountain was silent again.My wolf whispered inside me.‘Aurelian, we can talk and reason this out. This place doesn’t feel safe.’“It doesn't feel safe to you because we both know what I am here for.”‘You literally saw an old woman, and now she has vanished, and you think it's about me?’I ignored him and kept moving higher up the path.She must be the one I am looking for.I saw a small hut ahead, hidden in the fog. It was old, made of dark stone and wood, almost part of the mountain itself.I moved towards it, but before I reached it, my wolf spoke.‘Stop, don’t go closer. Do you perceive that?’“Perceive what…”Then it hit me. The thick smell of bane poison.I stopped, looking around, trying to find where it was coming from, but I couldn't.I took a slow step forward, and nothing happened.Then I took another step forward, but nothing happened.I was about to take another step forward when suddenly, a long blade came out of the ground, slicing through the air wi
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