Semua Bab The day he Rejected Me my white wolf woke: Bab 11 - Bab 20

The stairs made of pure ice went down deep under the river, glowing blue and white.I had never seen anything like it. Each step was clear ice but warm under my bare feet. Blue flowers grew from the walls, lighting the way. Kael carried me because my legs were still weak after my first shift into Eclipse. Jaxon walked beside him, his white hair wet, his hand holding his chest where cursed blood was moving.Elara walked in front. Her white hair glowed. She was no longer frozen. She was alive and she was Queen.At the bottom of the stairs, the ice opened into a hall.It was bigger than the pack hall in Blackthorne territory. The ceiling was high, made of ice that looked like stars. Pillars made of frozen trees held the roof. And in the middle of the hall, there were sleeping wolves.Hundreds of them.All white. All lying on ice beds, eyes closed, breathing slowly. Some were big, some were small pups. All had silver marks on their foreheads."My pack," Elara whispered, tears in her eyes.

He had heard everything. And he was smiling with my red eye.The bubble rose from black water under ice and popped without sound. Only I saw it because only Eclipse has red eye that can see through black water.Lyra felt it too._He is not gone,_ she whispered. _He listens._Nox growled low. _Let him listen. We are stronger with pack._But we were not stronger yet. We had just woken.Elara turned to White Pack, hundreds of white wolves standing on snow around frozen river, torches still burning orange from Magnus hunters."Go back to hall," she commanded, Queen voice soft but clear. "Eat. Rest. You slept twenty one years. You are weak. Tomorrow we close river gate."White Pack obeyed, moving like river back down ice ramp, paws silent. The small pup that had jumped into my Eclipse fur stayed, sleeping now on my white half, warm.Only we stayed on top: me, Jaxon, Elara, Kael.Magnus had run, but his footprints were deep in snow, leading toward Blackthorne territory through Dark Forest.

The small white pup said "Queen" and fell asleep again in Elara's arms.White Kingdom hall was full. Never in twenty one years had this hall been full. White Wolves on left side, on ice beds, eating meat ice Elara made. Blackthorne wolves on right side, on stone floor, eating same meat ice but looking at white fur like they had never seen snow.They had not. Blackthorne territory has dark trees, no snow. White Kingdom has snow even inside.I sat in middle, on Heart Pool edge, feet in warm water, cloak around me, half shifted still because Lyra and Nox would not sleep after cleansing pup.Beta Ward sat beside me, my adopted father, eating with hands, not wolf mouth, because he said human hands remember daughter better.Jaxon sat on other side, white haired, blue eyed, eating but watching Blackthorne pack. He was still their Alpha's son yesterday. Today he was White Prince. They did not know what to call him.Kael stood at gate, not eating. Veil Guard does not eat when Queen eats. He gu

One night had become one hour.The service tunnel sealed with blue twin blood symbol, Tomas shaking in Beta Ward's arms, rogue wolves dead or run, White and Black packs panting together in one hall for first time.Then ice above cracked. Not small crack. Deep crack that ran from river gate down ice ramp like lightning.Elara's head snapped up. "He broke seal. With true body."Kael, grey fur bleeding from fight with Tomas vessel, shifted to human, silver scars now glowing faint black-white from Eclipse touch."He could not break seal before because seal had twin blood and Beta hand," Kael said, breathing hard. "Now Beta hand left seal to hold Tomas. Seal weak."From above, through cracked ice ramp, black water poured, not bubbling, flowing, and with water came cold that was not winter cold, was grave cold.First Cursed Wolf was climbing out with his real body, not through pup, not through Tomas.Twenty one years ago Elara put White Pack to sleep and froze river to trap him. Twenty one

We slept on snow.Not ice beds, not stone floor, not hall with drawings of twin blood on walls. Just snow, full moon, cold wind from Dark Forest, and five-symbol seal behind us glowing faintly under ice like night light.White Pack had never slept on snow outside hall. For hundred years White Pack slept on ice beds inside White Kingdom hall, warm with Queen's light. Snow outside was for hunting, not sleeping.Blackthorne pack had never slept with White. For twenty one years Blackthorne pack was taught White fur means enemy, White eye means death.Tonight black fur and white fur touched for warmth because wind was cold and pups cried.I lay in middle, small white pup that called me Queen on my chest, Eclipse cloak around us, bowl of Moon water empty beside me. Jaxon white wolf on left, Kael grey wolf on right, both eyes open guarding.Elara lay near seal, white hair spread on snow, not sleeping, hand on ice.Beta Ward lay with Tomas and Magnus between. Tomas shaking even in sleep, Magn