Alpha Ethan
The Crown pulses, conflicted.
The Reverent watches, unreadable.
You anchor two powers you should not survive, the Prime continues, gaze piercing. Why?
I think of the pack. Of Midnight. Of the children dreaming of shadows and chains.
“Because silence was killing us,” I answer.
The Prime studies me for a long moment, then turns its gaze outward, toward the sealed border.
The old predators will come now. Not scouts. Not parasites.
My stomach twists. “How many?”
Enough.
Ethan steps up beside me, shoulders squared. “Then we’ll fight.”
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