Mt Silver Novels & Stories

"This is Healer Maren. She specializes in supernatural contamination." The woman stepped forward. She was middle-aged with silver streaks in her dark hair and eyes that seemed to see everything. "We need to run a definitive test," she said without introduction. "What kind of test?" "Silver tonic," she replied, pulling a small silver cup from her bag. "True supernatural contamination reacts violently to pure silver." "Violently how?" "Burns the throat. Causes internal damage. Sometimes… death." I stared at the cup she was filling with clear liquid. It steamed slightly, and I could smell the metallic scent.

"A new addition to the Luna trials. The future Luna must stand within the Silver Circle for one full hour." My breath catches in my throat. Silver. The metal that drains a werewolf's strength, burning like acid with prolonged exposure. And that circle… it's small—barely six feet across—ringed with waist-high stakes driven deep into the ground. Even standing this close makes my skin prickle and itch. And I'm pregnant. Goddess, is this woman trying to kill my pup? "Well, don't keep us waiting, Hannah," Margaret says, her lips curling into a smug, satisfied smile.

It wasn’t macho; it was math. Silver came later, in a windowless room with a table and a locked case, not as a thrill but as a lecture with props. With a gloved hand, Todd laid a handful of objects on a cloth—cutlery, jewelry, a small bar that looked like nothing—and told me the truth: how silver bites wolves, why it does, what it represents to them, and how it turns from defense to cruelty faster than you think if you wield it like a fantasy. He let me hold the bar with gloves, feel the wrong chill of it, then put it away. “Last resort,” he said. “The line that ruins a dinner table if you cross it for sport.” I nodded. I got it. Some power you respect by not touching.

"Valkyrie Two and Three, deploy Silvermist protocol. Blanket the target area." The other two drones swooped low over the ocean, their wings angling with impossible grace. They released a fine, shimmering mist from their dispersal pods, a glittering cloud that descended upon the churning water. The "Silvermist" was one of Katherine's more elegant and brutal inventions: an aerosolized silver nitrate compound, molecularly bound to a clinging agent. Harmless to humans, but agonizingly, flesh-meltingly corrosive to most supernatural creatures, especially werewolves and the magically summoned beasts they controlled.

We sipped our drinks and waited for our food to be brought out by the waitress. “Boss” Matteo called out. “There's been a few underground transactions of silver. But in extremely tiny amounts. The order goes to a laboratory on the outskirts of the city.” He finished “And why am I hearing this just now? No matter the minute quantity of silver being purchased, every silver that's bought in New York City should be made known to me” I was a bit angry because I knew as a werewolf himself, Matteo understood how silver was a dangerous substance to us, no matter the quantity. It didn't sit well with me that I was just getting to know about this just now.

Finally someone I can control. © copyright Salem Silver G

Damien rolled down his window at that threat. “Hello, friend,” he said smoothly, “That won’t be necessary today. We are on our way to Silver Tower, and I can make a quick call to sort this out.” Damien pulled a flat rectangular screen about the size of my hand from a concealed space next to him. “And, as I’m sure you know, silver only works on wolves from the South, not the North. It would sting and make us angry…” he trailed off.

Silver turned her purple eyes towards us and they glistened as they met Mac’s. “It’s done…” I said softly. “It’s done…” Mac took a step towards her. The world stopped. Time stopped. Everything stopped. I didn’t care what was happening between Tessa and Graham behind us. I didn’t care what was happening around me. All I could see was her—my mate. But suddenly something happened. I felt something snap inside of me. And before either Mac or I could comprehend, Silver collapsed on the floor with a thud, shifting back into her human form in a snap.

Silver muttered into Maya's chest. "No, I'm pregnant.”