a's

to bi

I remember is screaming, silver light, and the fe

's just..

d warm. I'm still in Shadowpine Forest, still lying on the cold stone at the ce

rits ar

g for breath just days ago is still there, I can feel it pulsing in my chest, but it's changed. The ice-c

ved, my

r but completely wrong. Deeper tha

en

es. I died. What came

f my heartbeat, the corrupted bond pulsing beneath it. She's

o I cal

you. You are me. We ar

nt too. Stronger. Like the power that carved i

n at my ar

he morning light, tracing patterns from my wrists up to my shoulders. I touch one gently

to see

ins, fed by a small spring. I stumble toward it, my l

taring back at m

ure silver that catches the light like starlight. It falls around my

marks that st

my ribs, curving around my waist. I pull up my shirt with trembling hands and se

e a monster

my wolf corrects. Lik

water, watching the ripples

now who I

e says bluntly. W

longer. I need food. Water. Shelter. All the practi

my feet and imm

l, faint but insistent, tugging at my awareness. I turn towa

is t

s. Suffering. An

inty. Somewhere out there, not far from where I'm

ow

y felt. Every omega who was sacrificed, who was sil

oever it is, they're clo

following the invisible thread of suffering. The corrupted bond in my chest flares

't matte

head. I hear voi

egs. "I didn't do anything

e, omega." The man's voice is c

nto the

it. Rough clothes, scarred faces, the kind of males

She can't be more than nineteen, thin and tre

e has his hand a

er go,

s colder. Harder. The voice of someon

know what they see. A woman with silver hair and glowing marks, stand

largest o

ases the girl, who collapses to her knees g

d let

surface. His eyes flash amber. "You'll fight all four of us

pts from

he threatens me, silver light explodes outward in a wave, sl

with a sickening crack and doesn't get up. The others scramble

are you?" one o

ng across my palms like living flame. The power feels natura

y wolf says, satisfaction

aver or stupider than the others, shifts into his wolf

lun

. The power

dair. He hangs there, suspended, struggling against invisible bonds. I fe

r two. "Now. Before I de

y r

himpers, his wolf form flickeri

t's like to be powerless, then release him. He drops to the

lent except for the g

ure of terror and awe, pressed against the tre

I ask, forcing m

s her hea

k. One that won't punish y

ispers. Then, quiet

ain. The silver light is already f

know,"

d runs, disappearing into th

lone

wer awakened something. I can feel Kael on the other end of it, distan

wolf says vicious

silver light fade. The rogues I just destroyed, they were noth

won't be

e me stirs, res