Running Away with Alpha's Baby Bump
“I’m the only one who knows the sigils. You can fight shadows, Jarek. But this isn’t a fight you win with a blade.”
Jarek’s jaw worked, but he said nothing. Kael saw the way his friend’s hand tightened around the hilt of his sword, a soldier’s helplessness when the war left the battlefield and turned to something they couldn’t bleed out.
Kael crouched beside the sigil, Storm’s quiet breathing threading through the tension like a promise. The mark pulsed faintly as he reached toward it, and when his fingers hovered just above the soil, the air split with a soft, metallic ringing. The world bent around it, cold and wrong.