Rejected by the Alpha, Claimed by the Crown
Food was food.
All the energy surged into me, rushing through every fragment of my being. I twisted, shattered, and reformed, collapsing only to rise again. I felt as if I were a creature caught in the fire of metamorphosis, fragile, struggling, yet inexorably transforming into something entirely new.
The tree ichor had become my sustenance, feeding the core of my being. Now, the frozen snow and jagged stone around me wove themselves into a new shell, cold and firm, shaping the shell in which I would emerge stronger, tempered by the harshness of the world.
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