By sunset, the valley below the mountain no longer resembles a containment zone.It looks like the beginning of a revolution.Thousands of headlights stretch across the snow-covered roads beneath the sanctuary cliffs while crowds gather around every barricade the councils erected overnight. Wolves from neighboring territories continue arriving despite closed checkpoints and military warnings. Human civilians stand among them now too, many unaware of the full truth but refusing to leave family members behind.The blockade was supposed to isolate the mountain.Instead, it exposed it.And exposure is harder to bury than secrets.Vaelith stands near the southern overlook watching the chaos spread beneath the fading winter sky. Fires burn across the valley camps now where stranded wolves have begun settling along the roadsides. The sound reaches the mountain in distant waves raised voices, engines, arguments, chants she cannot fully make out from this height.But she feels the emotion clea
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