THE ALPHA’S GHOST
Two wolves crouch behind metal crates, eyes flickering silver, bodies shaking as the pathogen fights for control.
I step forward slowly.
“It is okay,” I say, keeping my voice calm. “I can help you.”
They do not trust easily. None of them do. But when I kneel and place my hands on the ground, when I let the silver veins glow just enough to be seen, something inside them recognizes me.
I touch the first wolf.
The extraction is fast now. Clean. The pathogen pulls toward me like iron to a magnet, writhing and resisting, but it cannot win. I break it down inside my body, neutralizing it into nothing more than harmless matter. The wolf collapses, breathing hard, eyes clearing.
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