Chapter 61Aurelia’s POVThe chamber of the High Sanctuary quiet, so quiet it was suffocating, except for the soft, rhythmic hum of liquid gold swirling within the wide obsidian basin before me.I stood with my palms resting on the cool, dark stone rim, my fingers trembling slightly. For nineteen years, this scrying pool had given me nothing but cold gray shadows, bitter silences, and the hollow echo of a mother’s unending grief.Now, the water burned bright. It has life, it made more meaning. Through the eyes of Commander Corvus, standing at the edge of the northern courtyard, the vision flared into crystalline clarity.The Northern Vane was a dazzling, beautiful place of rough granite, frost-dusted timber, and towering stone ramparts built to withstand centuries of ice and iron. Fifty pack warriors surrounded Corvus’s small party, their broadswords drawn, their heavy wolf fur cloaks snapping wildly in the biting mountain gale.My heart hammered against my ribs, an ache so raw and
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