The Wolf's Game
It’s faint, barely audible, but it vibrates through my bones like a tuning fork struck against grief.
Ten stones.
Nine intact.
One cracked.
The crack has widened.
Not by much, but enough for me to notice.
The hum intensifies as I approach, the sound climbing into something almost musical, almost pleading.
I stop a few feet away. Kael halts beside me.
“You feel that,” I say.
“Yes,” he replies grimly.
The cracked stone pulses once. A whisper of air slips from the fracture, brushing my cheek like a breath drawn too late.
“This is where it starts,” I murmur.
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