HIS REJECTED GODDESS
I pulled the crushing, industrialized despair through the iron wrench, through my arms, and pushed it outward into the circle of fifty wolves.
The wolves took it.
They didn't flinch. They were the Vanguard’s elite. They were trained to swallow the trauma of a battlefield. Fifty disciplined minds effortlessly absorbed the old man’s isolated pain, dissipating it into the vast, shared capacity of the pack.
And then, I pushed back.
I pulled the pure, unconditional warmth of the fifty wolves—the memory of sunlight on the eastern ridge, the profound safety of the sanctuary walls, the absolute certainty of belonging—and I drove it straight down the handle of the rusted wrench.
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