The Wilder Games - Savage Surrender 1
I pinch a strip of wildmint between my finger and thumb, smear it along the rim, then breathe a thin thread of light into the metal seam.
“Sleep,” I whisper. A flicker of green, then nothing. No hum. No bite. Dead quiet.
I jerk my chin. “Cross.”
They do, in order: Nythor silent as snowfall; Fenrick with a wolf’s careless grace; Hadrian with an expression that says the log has personally offended him and must be defeated with dignity. The pine groans under him and holds. I pretend not to smirk.
Past the gorge, the woods hunker down into thicker shadow. The Split Cedar stands ahead like a lightning struck sentinel, its heart cleaved and stitched with lichen. Wards hum here, my fingers tingle b
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