THE MATE HE COULDN'T CLAIM
The cabin around me blurred, melted, vanished.
I stood instead beneath a blood-red sky. The air crackled with energy, sharp and dangerous. Wolves howled all around, though I couldn’t see them. My belly was heavy, my heart frantic, and before me rose a tree not like any tree of this world.
Its trunk was black stone; its branches dripped silver leaves that shimmered like glass. And at its base, carved deep into the rock, glowed a seal. The same one Caleb had uncovered weeks ago.
When I reached out, the seal pulsed, and a voice not mine, not human, not wolf whispered from the roots:
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