Prophecy Of The Lycan Queen
And then, as she cleared the last of the undergrowth, she stopped dead in her tracks.
"Oh," she breathed out, the sound barely more than a whisper.
There it was. The naked tree.
It stood alone in a small clearing, massive and imposing. The trunk was thick, easily wide enough that it would take three people holding hands to circle it. But what struck Callie most was that it was completely, utterly bare. Not a single leaf clung to any of its gnarled branches.
They reached up toward the sky like skeletal fingers, twisting and turning in ways that seemed almost deliberate. The bark was a deep gray, almost silver in the early morning light, and it looked ancient, like it had been standing in this
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