= Amara =
“Where… am I?”
The words slipped out the moment consciousness returned, rough and uncertain, as though my voice hadn’t been used in a long time. My head throbbed, heavy with the remnants of a deep, unnatural trance, and for a few seconds I could do nothing but stare, trying to piece together the fragments of my memory.
The last thing I remembered was Caryl.
We had been on our way back to Veyrath Town, the path familiar beneath our feet, the journey uneventful enough that my guard had lowered. As we passed the edge of Moon Forest, Caryl had taken the opportunity to talk—about the land, about its secrets, about the things most people pretended didn’t exist.
She told me the forest was forbidden. Not to everyone—just to most.
A place only an Alpha could enter.
At the time, I h
