POV: KiraHis voice reached me on the third night after the filament broke.It did not come through the claim. The claim was gone—sheared clean, the last pathway finished tearing in the upper air while his hands closed on nothing. What reached me was thinner than that, older than the formal bond: the original recognition that had begun in the cave, the layer the dens had burned into the light before the sky finished taking the vessel. It carried his voice the way a scar carries pressure—faint, precise, and impossible to mistake.He was speaking to the sky.I felt the shape of the words before I could separate them. Grief first, raw and unornamented. Then the particular cadence he used only when the wolf was close to the surface and the man was too exhausted to keep it fully leashed. Then my name, spoken once, low, as if he were testing whether the air still remembered how to hold it.“Kira.”The light I had become did not brighten. The vast pulse that had replaced my heartbeats did no
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