Ciri Novels & Stories

His three heads moved constantly—Alpha scanning high, Beta low, Gamma snapping at falling embers as though daring them to touch Ellie. The land shifted as they walked. Lava rivers dried in seconds, cooling into obsidian paths. Stone forests erupted from the floor—petrified trees clawing upward, each trunk carved with screaming faces that seemed to twist when Ellie wasn’t looking directly at them. Whispers slithered between the stone trees. Leave her. She is weak. You will fall together. Ellie’s throat tightened. “Ignore it,” she whispered, though the words stabbed deep. But Cerebus faltered. Beta’s ears flattened. Alpha snarled at the shadows. Gamma whined in confusion.

It was a young girl and she was naked; dirt and leaves clung to her hair and body and she looked deathly afraid. “Take her inside,” Blaise said as he pushed forward and I shifted and lunged towards the border of trees on the side of the house. I caught their scent and they turned and ran as soon as they saw me. Blaise was pretty hard to miss, he was much larger than an Alpha wolf and his fur was a mixture of light blue and gray like Onyx, but Blaise’s eyes were violet.