The Alpha's Forgotten Bloodline
A roar went up from the Nightfang, a sound so loud it caused the Cinder-Iron engines in the valley to stall.
Lyra leapt from the battlements, a violet meteor. She didn't use the Aether to grow vines; she used it to amplify the raw, physical power of her pack. The Nightfang warriors hit the Southern lines not as ethereal beings, but as the most terrifying predators the world had ever seen—shifters who possessed the speed of light and the hunger of the Maw.
The Duel of the New Alphas
In the center of the battlefield, Lyra met the Alpha of the Golden-Mane, a man named Cassian who had surgically removed his own Aetheric sensitivity. He fought with a cold, mechanical precision, his eyes two dead