The Lycan King’s Rogue Queen
Every time a soldier reformed, Kael and I hit the same rhythm — sword, flame, strike, breath — until the air hummed with the pattern of us.
Then the ground burned.
Not from fire.
From presence.
Light gathered on the horizon, trembling — not stable, not real — like a god’s echo clawing its way back through its own death.
Solen.
Or what was left of him.
He stepped out of the light — translucent, cracked with fractures of gold, his form flickering between glory and ruin.
“You cannot kill the Sun,” he said, voice hollow. “You can only delay dawn.”
I smiled. “Guess I’m hitting snooze, then.”
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