Forbidden by the Triplet Alphas
"Watching my mother die in the snow. Watching my father fall to the shadow. Watching my brothers suffer in silence. Watching Ravenna fight—the king, the shadow, the watchers, the fissure. Watching and doing nothing. I thought I was protecting them by watching. I thought I was keeping them safe. But I was only protecting myself. I was only hiding. Now I have stopped watching. Now I am fighting. Now I am here. Now I am home."
The pack wept. The flames rose higher, licking at the darkening sky. The smoke curled upward, carrying the souls of the fallen to wherever wolves go when they die.
I raised the Kingslayer. The symbols flickered, then blazed—gold and silver, bright as the sun, bright as th
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