CORALINA'S S POV The thick, tropical steam rising from the boiling ruins of the Glacial Pool swirls around the obsidian pillars, turning the ancient subterranean amphitheater into a humid, suffocating greenhouse. The Tundra Elders remain on their knees in the warm slush, their foreheads pressed against the basalt floorboards in total, terrified submission to the majesty of my stabilized hearth-fire. But at the apex of the room, standing before the jagged black throne, Fenrir refuses to bend. His milky-white, blind eyes roll back into his weathered skull, his lips pulling away from his silver fangs in a grotesque, mocking snarl. The intense scent of his ancient, glacial Alpha musk spikes to a desperate, suffocating density, trying to claw through the lavender heat radiating from my skin. "The elders are old and easily blinded by a researcher’s parlor trick!" Fenrir’s voice booms through the cavern, a deep, grinding bass that sounds like a tectonic fault line tearing open. He does n
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