Forbidden by the Triplet Alphas
Only a strange, heavy peace.
A woman stood before me. Her hair was dark, her eyes honey gold, her smile sad. She wore a crown of thorns, identical to the one I had worn, but hers was woven with flowers—roses, pale and wilting. I knew her face from the portrait in the locked room, from the stories Lysander had told me.
Seraphine.
"You are not real," I said. My voice echoed in the empty field.
She laughed. It was a soft sound, warm, almost familiar. "I am as real as you need me to be, Ravenna. I am the echo the first wolf left in the heart. I am the memory of every wolf who has carried the bloodline. I am the choice."
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