Claimed by the Alpha's Curse
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The ride to Silverdeep took six days.
Along the way, they passed five abandoned villages.
Two were burned.
One was painted in blood.
In another, a child wandered alone,no memory, no name, her eyes void black.
They brought her with them.
Veera sat with the girl every night, whispering stories. Lyra kept her distance. The girl’s presence echoed. Something about her blood sang too closely to Lyra’s own.
They reached Silverdeep on the seventh night.
And what they saw stopped their breath.
The burial grounds had been unearthed. The earth was torn, clawed open from the inside. Massive runes—old and twisted—burned in the soil. A gate stood in the center of the valley, iron and bone welded toget