aevan's whole body changed - careful stillness gone,

he sai

them, strange and yet some

s old ones never could: exact moment startled owl broke from bran

like it waited my whol

ave felt li

ke bein

o snarl, and yet Rhaevan understood anyway, which told me he'd done t

o start a rumor. Rumor enough to reach wrong ears eventually. That's a problem f

urposeful - not confused trackers stumbling on a

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e by h

n, fury cutting cleaner than fear had. "He humiliated m

ected h

t, controlled, but I ca

ey he has no idea what he actually gave up tonight, and I wager e

overlooking the river gorge, moonlight t

so abruptly I ne

five Ashveil trackers and an Alpha who has every legal right, under pack law, to ki

pursuit - 200 me

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insistently, and beneath urgen

r this

hing

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n me an hour ago, whispering t

s the

aid, surprising myself wi

ed creature wearing color out of forbidden legend

hat else that bloodlin

er a ridge

d us, raw with something I refused to call fear for me, and long enough to hear him

nar

e river

wn name, spoken by a man who'd thrown it away, sounding fo