The Lycan Commander’s Lethal Shadow
It was a brand, a localized sun melting through her clothes, through her skin, burrowing deep into the marrow of her bones.
"Just a little longer... please."
She collapsed forward, her forehead pressing into the drift. The scent of her own scorching flesh filled her nose, a terrifying testament to the magic failing within the metal. For twenty three years, this medallion had been her anchor, her silence, her cage.
Snap.
The sound was not loud but it resonated in the center of her mind like the crack of an iron vault door being wrenched from its hinges. The heavy silver chain exploded.