Nyxara Rising
And then, like a breath held too long finally exhaled, everything simply… paused.
Nyxara drifted out onto the narrow balcony, hands braced cold against the iron rail as she peered into a sea of shadowed trees. The night pressed close, its chill a balm on her heated skin, a silent witness to all she carried. Inside her chest, the White Wolf stirred—not with anger, but with restless awareness, a creature woken from uneasy sleep. It paced inside her ribcage, no longer snarling for blood, but simply alert, its icy eyes scanning the darkness alongside hers. Watching, waiting.