BARBARIAN: The Mad Alpha Is My Mate.
It simply—stopped being whole, silver links falling away from Caierre's chest and hitting the stone in a small, bright, meaningless clatter, and nobody, not one person standing in that pass, could have said what had broken it.
Caierre gasped like a man surfacing from deep water. The pull in Alvar's chest eased all at once, so fast it left him dizzy, catching himself against the old man's shoulder before he went down again himself.
Silence. Real silence this time, total, even the wolves gone quiet.
The Keeper who'd held the chain stared at the broken links in his hand like they'd betrayed him personally. "That chain has held gods," he said, hoarse. "It doesn't break. It's never broken."
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