body

ure lunge

burned, lungs screaming for air. The glowing eyes of the predator, red like mo

med into the

d leaves filled her mouth. Pain shot through

a deep voi

a

thick, alive, swirling like black smoke that lunged at the creature.

red, eyes silver and glowing. "Why weren't you

She didn't even understand how she had ended

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g the air. The beast snarled and leap

fast. T

ature yelped and scrambled back. Nara could hear the

sharp and insistent. It pulled her attention to Kae

tired. He shouldn't

he wanted to help. Something inside her scream

silver eyes, bright and

d through the fear, sha

muscles shaking, and focused on the bond-the strange pull that

it ha

ammed into the red-eyed wolf. The creature screeched, stumbling

jaw d

tered, lunging forw

t step back. S

y red-eyed wolf within twenty feet staggered, forced to retreat. She

awe and something else-something

lver eyes glimmered in the mo

the white wolf-the one older, taller

iding, observ

voice was soft but dangerous, echoing in her mind

stomach

hispered. "I don't..

roat. "Don't listen to it,

. The child you rejected is of the line that could either s

d to speak, tried to ask quest

" he said, voice low and urgent. "Listen to me carefully. You are not sa

nspoken threat hung bet

e started, fear cl

nd you will, because I will not

were fierce, like steel cutting through fear. Somehow, she

ped forward, fully revealing

s eyes were red and burning, filled with hung

it hissed. "And there is no

apped around him like armor, every

," he g

ed, and with a swift

lashing, shadows twisting li

g her. She wanted to help, wanted to run, wan

refused

nd inside her chest, pullin

hands glowed with that strange energy. The

anions, watching from the shadows, yelped and lu

n, eyes wide. "You... y

ly feel the power inside her, raw and untamed. It

y hesitated, exchanging

ward again, slower this time. I

ot hide the truth of your blood. The Shadowblood lin

a f

y?" she

s ever. "Ignore it. I don't care what they say. You are mine t

t even you cannot stop destiny. Soon... you will have to choo

tand the words, didn't understand the magic, d

s: she was not stron

r the first time in he

ighter, stronger, answering

noticed her trembling han

than you know,"

her eyes. "I... I don't

w, dangerous, and commanding. "

began to circle them, movi

ghter, growing longer, sharper. Eve

n. Her energy pulsed in re

ment her life c

e had ignored. She was... something else

e able to run from

d. The red-eyed

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they leapt i