The clearing did not return to normal after Darius left. The noise was gone and the fighting had stopped, but the tension lingered in the air like something that refused to settle. Wolves remained where they stood, watching, waiting, as if expecting the night to turn again at any moment.Aria stayed near the steps, her breathing finally beginning to slow, though the feeling in her chest had not faded. The heat was still there, quieter now but steady, like something that had awakened and refused to go back to sleep.She looked down at her hands again.They looked the same.Nothing different. Nothing dangerous.And yet she had just thrown a full-grown wolf across a clearing without even understanding how.“That’s not normal,” she said under her breath.“No,” Kael replied, stepping closer. “It’s not.”His voice was calm again, but there was something beneath it now. Not fear. Not exactly. Something more controlled, more careful, as if he was measuring every word before saying it.Aria li
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