- RAVENAThe small timber cabin Edith had given me was quiet, save for the rhythmic clicking of the dying embers in the hearth. For three days, I barely left the mattress. My body was paying the price for the miles I’d dragged it through, and every muscle felt like it had been shredded and stitched back together with rusty wire. The friction burns from the silver-iron shackles on my wrists were finally starting to scab over, thanks to a pungent moss salve Rayna had brought me, but the hollow ache where Astraea used to be remained. Without a wolf’s rapid healing, I was just a fragile, breakable human.Somewhere in the deep, freezing middle of the night, the ambient temperature in the cabin suddenly shifted.I woke up with a gasp, my hand instantly flying to the heavy Crimson Gibcasite pendant resting against my collarbone. It wasn't the bitter winter wind that had startled me awake. It was the strange air. The draft coming through the floorboards suddenly felt dense and dry, carryi
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