Replaced by His First Love
He tapped the screen with a trembling, charred finger.
"Stage one is complete," Kael rasped. Every word was a struggle against the necrotic poison. "Two fragments secured. But the analysis is clear. To ground the full awakening... to save his heart from the final surge... we need all four. The Trinity was a lie; it’s a Quad-Anchor system. And the third piece..."
He swiped the map, zeroing in on a jagged, ice-covered mountain range in the Far North.
"The Ancient Wolf Ruins," Kael whispered. "The graveyard of the First Prime. Shifters don't go there, Phoenix. The air is so cold it turns shifter blood into needles. But that’s where the map ends."