Time wove its gentle patterns around our ridge cabin as the years deepened. The crystals on the mantel still glowed from time to time but their calls grew softer and farther between. We answered when we could offering guidance to younger guardians or mending small fractures in the veils. Mostly though we lived the quiet life we had chosen. Ronan and I had become elders in truth. Our steps slower our hands more careful with each task yet our bond remained as fierce and tender as the day it was first sealed.Spring brought one of the sweetest milestones we had yet known. Soren arrived at the cabin with her entire family and news that made my heart soar. Her eldest daughter Elara was to be bonded in the sacred ruins under the full moon. The ceremony would honor the old ways while embracing the new alliances between realms. Elara had chosen a mate from a visiting pack whose people walked between worlds as easily as we now did in our later years.We traveled down to Stormridge together the
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