Crown of Frost and Gold
Dusk bled into a pitch-black, frigid night across the jagged peaks of the Whispering Ridge. Snow swirled in icy eddies through the mountain pass, but the Frostwell vanguard moved like silent ghosts through the deep pine groves. Over four hundred hardened northern warriors marched without lit torches or clattering steel, their movements synchronized and lethal. At the head of the column marched Alpha Asher and Luna Lydia, their dark, fur-lined cloaks fluttering against the howling wind. Through their shared golden mate bond, Asher poured continuous warmth into her skin, but he knew she was far from fragile; Lydia moved with absolute grace in her dark leather battle tunic, twin silver blades s