POV DARLENEThe scent of the 170th layer was not clinical or cold. It was the thick, iron-heavy stench of Fresh Kill and Ancient Pine. We weren't in a digital void; we were standing on the Peak of the Howling Crags, the literal backbone of the North. Below us, the valleys were choked with the grey-white fog of a winter that refused to end, and through that fog, I could hear the rhythmic, terrifying thunder of Ten Thousand Paws.The High Council hadn't sent soldiers in suits. They had unleashed the Feral-Sins—the wolves who had been stripped of their humanity centuries ago, kept in the dark of the West’s dungeons, fed only on the blood of their own kin.I stood at the edge of the precipice, my Sunset-Gold Fire rolling off my skin in waves of heat that melted the permafrost beneath my feet. My claws, elongated and obsidian-sharp, twitched with a hunger I hadn't felt since the first night I shifted in the Square."They’re coming for the pups, Darlene," Eryx growled beside me.He was in h
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