The Ashen Veil
Rowan’s body reacts involuntarily, his breath leaving him in a sharp, controlled exhale that he clearly refuses to allow to become weakness, even as his muscles tense beneath the sudden invasion of pain that silver always brings.
He doesn’t cry out.
He doesn’t fall.
He doesn’t give the hunters what they expect.
But I see the truth in the tightening of his jaw, in the subtle shift of his shoulders as his body absorbs the damage and immediately begins compensating for it, redistributing strength, adjusting balance, refusing surrender with the kind of instinct that only creatures forged through extinction truly possess.
Blood spreads slowly across his side, darkening the fabric of his clothing
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