The seasons on the Silver Moon had become a seamless, rhythmic tapestry of silver snow and violet bloom, a cycle that required no intervention from the stars. Decades had passed since the first "Amethyst Scalpel" had touched the mountain, and the stone infirmary in the Fringe had become a place of legend, a sanctuary where the smell of cedar and yarrow was the only medicine needed. I stood in the center of the "Healer’s Grove," my Tempered Heart drumming a steady, peaceful sixty beats per minute, a rhythm that was now the permanent, tectonic pulse of the Earth. My gold-ringed eyes, though softened by age, still held the sharp, clinical clarity of the White Wolf."The pups are asking for the story of the mud again, Elara," Killian rumbled, his voice a low, warm vibration that still made my blood dance. He sat on a fallen cedar log, his slate grey fur now a beautiful, snowy white, his silver eyes reflecting the morning sun with a predatory, romantic wit."Then let them hear it, Killian,
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