Nyx
The air tastes like metal and smoke as I emerge from the forest. The clearing at the heart of Kaelen’s old territory. The same one that once held training rings and bonfires, is now a stage. Massive LED screens hang between the pines, streaming the summit to every pack across the continent.
Drones hum above, red lights blinking like watchful eyes. Wolves have always thrived on ritual, but now it’s a spectacle. And I stand in the middle of it. It’s been three months since the Eclipse. Three months since my blood soaked the earth and Selene, the wolf inside me, rose fully from the ashes of what I used to be.
I feel her pulse beneath my skin now, a constant drumbeat that doesn’t belong to flesh. The wolves that once avoided my gaze now bow without knowing why. But today, they don’t b
