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f iron fill

distant forest where shadows danced under the moonlight. The distan

lefield, leading their warriors

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y hand on his shoulder. "Your father ordere

be next in line

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chest ti

happening

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trembled be

through the trees-

led. "That's the

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ou'll lead

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ggling to lift the training

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red at th

s voice sof

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his mind as he spri

ed, some fully transformed-lay broken and scatt

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and snapping ja

he sa

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a king co

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voice tore f

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shadows behind Aldric-tall

nemy

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breath

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cream spl

he reached him,

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him, dropping

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stared past him,

ing of the Shadow

ridge, Garrick

ther's

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smi

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elt around their fallen ki

from his hands, his father

of it wasn'

weight of

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battlefield, lifting the scent

n his arms. The great Alpha King, Aldric Blackfang, the wo

d against the deep wound in his fathe

onan's voice cracke

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r's last words slipped past

hen-n

sounds of battle faded, the screams and

feless face, a crushing weig

t how it's su

it

ed across the battlefield, s

as L

ipped tightly in his bloodied hands. He turned

re watc

ned with dirt and blood, ey

heavy silence

ere wa

r

ion hit him

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en's

the howl he had unleashed, a

remained fi

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ly, knowing the weight

an didn

d a hand on

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thought Ronan w

, Ronan lif

were now dark, clouded

ll pay f

d they will. But n

on the swor

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sitated b

oftness left i

the A

ick'

f the forest, Garrick w

heir father's corpse,

het

ips curled

for years. His father dea

nan the counc

akest

t would

y emotion. He would crumble

would be there to claim

rrowed on h

le Alpha.

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gh when the war

's quarters, Aria saw them approach

thing wa

re fewer

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eart

o.

rom the room, her bare feet

courtyard just

parted, and

na

hollow, carrying th

ugh the crowd, but

m, straight towar

legs fe

ing i

Rona

was

was dark

ne slab at the center of the room, wher

e still form, h

echoed b

coun

eremonial robes, approach

rying through the hall. "By law and by the will of

jaw cl

dn't

s eyes

ackfang. Accept

ere heavy,

father's sword, ly

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didn't

an dropped

ting the ancient crown carv

it upon Ro

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oed with rel

heard the

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hall, Garrick's han

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tr

wn will

y or a

a's

r the doorway, Aria

ng sentenced to death, n

hest

he bond, his coldnes

r wante

he had

ither

the crown wa

the silence

his cold gaze sweep

brot

coun

warr

them

for him

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fter t

es dar

ery bastard resp

ll was

by one, warriors d

was the

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emained standing, sm

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said

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