The very first sign of the impending disruption arrived just before the breaking of dawn.It wasn't a sudden, marching foreign army. It wasn't a thunderous, terrifying roar that shook the foundations of the ancient mountains. It was something far more unnerving.Silence.The eastern watchtower, a stone outpost usually alive with the cheerful sounds of morning birds and the low, resonant howls of territorial wolves greeting the breaking day, had suddenly fallen unnaturally quiet.Commander Roland frowned deeply, adjusting his grip on the leather reins as he rode his powerful steed through the dense, shadowed forest. The morning air felt entirely wrong—heavy, stagnant, and completely devoid of the usual woodland life. Even his inner wolf paced with an uneasy, growling restlessness beneath his skin, claws metaphorically digging deep into his consciousness."Spread out immediately," Roland ordered the four elite warriors of his patrol, his voice a low, commanding rumble. "Search every sin
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