Years later, the mountain still stood unchanged, its ancient granite shoulders dusted with perpetual snow, indifferent to the passage of time. Yet everything inside the Den had transformed beyond recognition.The once-silent stone halls, which had echoed only with the weight of heavy boots and whispered threats, now rang with the constant patter of small feet and bright, unrestrained laughter. Three pups, two boys and one girl, raced through the wide chambers like living storms of energy. Their silver eyes, inherited from my moon-born lineage, flashed with the same ancient power that had once marked me as forbidden, untouchable.The eldest boy, Kai, moved with Thorne’s predatory grace, already mimicking his father’s fighting stances during play. The middle child, Liora, possessed Aurelius’s sharp curiosity, pausing mid-chase to examine a glowing rune on the wall that none of the adults had noticed in decades. The youngest boy, Finn, trailed them with Cassian’s quiet steadiness, his la
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