Running Away with Alpha's Baby Bump
“If they’re coming for anything, Kael, it’s him.”
Kael didn’t argue. They both knew it was true. Storm wasn’t an ordinary child. He’d been born beneath the Hollow’s light, when the gate flared open for the last time. The night of his birth, the world had held its breath, and something in the deep had answered.
Later, when the others had gone to their posts, Kael stood beside the cot near the fire. Storm slept, bundled in wool and the scent of rosemary from Lira’s herbs. His small chest rose and fell with a steady rhythm.