Return of the Nameless Alpha
Below them, Fort Eisen's stained glass skylight rushes upward fast, the whole massive dome lit from within by dark, pulsing crimson that throbs steady like something alive and hungry beneath the ice.
The glass itself depicts a scene rendered in centuries-old craftsmanship, twin crescent moons crushing an ancient white wolf beneath an iron heel, and even at speed the image lands ugly and deliberate, propaganda cast in colored glass and left burning over a throne room for forty years.
Dark runes snake across every reinforced pane, humming audible even through the scream of the wind, boundary magic stolen and repurposed into something that reads less like protection and more like a leash.
"Fern