Against All Odds
* Cerberus *
The sun never truly rose in the borderlands between our domains, it bled through the mist like a wounded thing, casting red light over a valley steeped in ancient hate. We marched before the light crested, the wolves moving in tight phalanx through stone and root, their eyes glowing with anticipation. I walked to the center, Princess Zeina beside me, her bare feet now wrapped in hide, her shift replaced by obsidian-threaded armor that clung like second skin. A crown of woven silverbone rested lightly on her brow, not ceremonial, but war-wrought. She had claimed it herself.
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