ECLIPSE BORN
I said, and they scattered at once, dragging their broken bodies back into shadow.
I turned eastward, toward the lands that had birthed me and tried— so foolishly, to bury me. The wastelands stretched endlessly, scarred by my presence, reshaped by my dominion. The Corrupters had failed to hold territory, yes, but territory was meaningless without the right queen beside me.
Ava Varyn.
Her name rolled through my thoughts like thunder beneath stone.
I had waited decades for an eclipse-born untainted by fear or training, enduring decades of half-bloods and disappointments with beasts that shattered under their own power, or bent too easily to lesser instincts.
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