Brynn Hollis' POVThe shard's removal changed everything.Dawn—the wolf who had once been the Eclipse—was no longer absence. She was presence. Solid, real, vulnerable. She walked through Silver Creek like a stranger in a familiar land, touching walls, smelling flowers, listening to the laughter of pups."I have never heard laughter," she said."Now you have.""It is... strange.""Good strange?"She considered. "Yes. Good strange."---But the shard's removal had consequences we had not foreseen.The followers who had once been frozen by the shard's power were now free—but not all of them chose to thaw. Some clung to the cold, desperate for the absence they had known. They gathered in the frozen wastes, leaderless, directionless.Then they found a new leader.Not a wolf—a remnant. A fragment of the void that had been left behind when the shard was removed. It was not as powerful as the original, but it was enough."They are building something," Luna Rose said. "A new shard. Not from ab
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