THE LAST SHIFT: A Werewolf without a Wolf
In the distance, wolves cried out as the trees bent nearly to the breaking point.
The silver-eyed man shouted, his voice cracking with the strain of the atmosphere. “If the First Flame rises fully, the frame can’t hold both forces! One of them has to break!”
“Which one?” I asked.
He looked at me, and for the first time, I saw hope in his eyes. “The one that’s built on rules.”
The cold presence gathered itself like a massive storm wall.
Initiating overwrite.
The heat answered. The ground split wider, and light poured up—not blinding, but alive. It was fire that remembered being a sun. I gasped as the ember in my chest finally tore open.