Shadow Luna
The line representing the alpha wolf gene was thick, dark, and aggressive, but it didn't crowd out the secondary strand—the brilliant, sapphire-blue trace of the hybrid lineage.
"It's... it's pulling the signature," Eldon whispered, leaning back in toward his monitor, his eyes wide. "But the data structure is wrong. It's too dense. The system can't categorize the stability matrix."
"Because your system assumes a hybrid core is a defect," Aria said, her teeth gritted as she held the interface steady against the machine’s digital resistance. Her forehead glistened with a fine bead of sweat, her silver cloak rustling as her power stabilized the connection. "It’s not a defect. It’s an evolution.