THE LAST SHIFT: A Werewolf without a Wolf
The pulsing beneath the ridge faltered, staggered as if the Root-Heart hadn’t expected defiance, hadn’t believed fire would dare come for it.
Kieran’s ember answered, blazing out of his chest like a second sun. His body arched against mine, his hand locking hard around the back of my neck. His voice ripped out raw, but alive, fierce… “Together!”
And with a shudder that split the ridge wide open, the forest revealed its true heart.
From the abyss below, it rose: a mass of roots twisted into a sphere, glowing with veins of sap and shadow, each throb shaking the world around it. The Root-Heart, vast and alive. Waiting to consume us whole.
And we had only one weapon left… our fire.