Elara POV“Push, damn you! Push like the wolf you are, or this storm will claim another life tonight!” Healer Mira’s voice cracked like lightning through the sanctuary’s birthing chamber, her ancient, gnarled hands pressing firmly against my trembling thighs. The rain outside hammered the hidden stone walls of Moonstone’s sanctuary with the same vicious fury as the night I’d flung myself from Crescent Cliff three months ago. Thunder rolled overhead, shaking dust from the rafters, while lightning painted the frantic faces around me in stark, ghostly white. I screamed, a raw, shattering sound that tore from my soul as another contraction seized me, twisting my body like prey in a predator’s jaws.“I…..I can’t… Goddess, it feels like I’m being ripped apart!” I gasped, my nails carving bloody trails into the thick birthing pelts soaked beneath me. Sweat poured down my face, stinging my eyes, mingling with the hot tears I’d sworn I wouldn’t shed. I had survived the fall into the abyss. The
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