The Alpha's Refusal
If I didn't act, he wouldn't survive the night’s plummeting temperatures or the poison in his veins.
My vision doubled, but I had no choice, staggering toward a cluster of gnarled, skeletal thickets clinging to the leeward side of a rocky crag.
The ground was frozen iron. I fell to my knees, my fingernails splitting as I clawed at the permafrost, blood staining the dark earth. I dug like a feral thing until I found them: a few stalks of *Cold-Heart Grass*, shriveled by the frost but still potent. It was a rare find this season, a bitter plant known to draw out rot and slow venom. Then, ignoring the fire in my chest, I dragged myself further into the treeline, searching for the stringy, grey
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