Leonard’s POVSilence has weight. And it was a very heavy weight. I never knew that before today.Not the silence of night, or the quiet before a hunt, or even the cold stillness of winter snowfall across Silverfang territory. Those were natural silences. Familiar ones. Predictable ones.This one was different. This one was absence.For years, whether I admitted it or not, I could always feel her, aint, distant, sometimes irritating, sometimes comforting, but always there. Like a thread tied somewhere beneath my ribs. Even when she fought me. Even when she hated me. Even when I treated her like trash, even when she ran away from me.The bond existed and I could always feel her.Now, there was nothing. Just empty silence that pressed on my shoulders like the weight of the world.I sit in my chamber, elbows on my knees, staring at the floor while my wolf claws against my skull like it’s trying to dig through bone.Nothing.No echo of her emotions. No awareness of her presence. No resist
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