ra
on Outpost. We stumbled into a courtyard of trampled, bloody snow. The air here was thi
nce slammed down over the courtyard. It wasn't just
t, looking less like a man and more like a god of ice and violence. Kaelen Blackwood
her whimpered, dragging my broken father down into the snow with her. Thei
cs and the magical weight of an Alpha's command. I was the only one left standing,
s. His eyes were a piercing, unnatural i
ut, deep and resonant, cracking through the frigid air like a whi
k stone quarry at dawn, or hunt the tundra beasts for your rations. Women, the elderly, and th
trembling frame, and my own frail, *wolfless* stature. A flicker of absolute dismissal cross
e outcast's hovel by the pe
cariously against the trash heaps. The wind howled straight through its massive gaps. With my father's catatonic state and our starve
his black pelt swirling, ready to re
t, overriding my survival instincts. I ducked slightly be
hispered through chattering teeth, the
he massive
in his stride, but the shift in the air was i
Blackwood tur
lves, and locked onto me with terrifying precision. My heart seized. *He heard me.*
y neck. I expected a brutal punishment. But as I stared back, refusing to lower my chin despite the terror clawin
faded away. There was only the blizzard, the tyran
have imagined it. He didn't say a word. He simply gave me one last,
shoving Mason hard betwe
stench of the garbage heaps growing stronger until we were thrown to the frozen ground in front of the leaning, skele
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