Crystal’s POVLady Vespera cowered on the cold, cracked altar stone, her hands clawing desperately at the obsidian dust as her dark power withered away under the celestial light. The necrotic veins on her neck pulsed weakly, turning a dull, sickly ash-grey as my silver magic purified the ley-line anchor beneath our feet.Beside me, Kenneth shifted out of his massive golden wolf form in a fluid motion, his broad shoulders rising and falling with heavy, steady breaths. Blood covered his dark armor, but his golden Alpha eyes were entirely fixed on the trembling witch before us."Please..." Vespera wheezed, her voice stripped of its grand arrogance, reduced to a dry, raspy whimper. She scrambled backward until her spine hit the fractured remains of the obsidian pillar. "Crystal... spare me. I can give you knowledge... dark secrets... power beyond what your parents ever knew...""You dare bring my parents into this," I said, my voice dropping through the howling mountain wind. "You hid i
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