Cursed By The Lycan Blood

ed, her skin still tingling from the aftershock of the vision. The gol

me... S

before, but it felt

side her. "There's mor

as that? The fire... t

on't lie. You saw through the eyes of one o

ar below the stone halls and training grounds. The torchlight flickered along the wall

't directly descended from

ien answered. "Bu

ng. "So... what d

ace. "It makes you the last surviving bearer of her line. The others a

he asked, half dar

pens if it's lef

statues, mouths open in a silent snarl. Damien pressed his palm t

air was cold

gil that pulsed with faint light. Along the walls were artif

center stoo

mall obsidian dagger, c

it cautiously. "W

loodwood keeps one. It holds the remnants of our history-

t him. "The L

epers. They decide what truths are too dangerous to let

e could feel it humming beneath her

aid. "It was the weapon she used to wo

tched. "The F

y. The gods stripped him of his name and branded his children. Seraphiel

ingers trembling, an

rembled wi

red to life. Runes glowed.

t, layered in echoes-w

h. The last howl before the

d back, the

brows drawn tight.

," Sarah whisper

en there's no doubt

retched be

to become some... warrior queen? Or sacrifi

we're running out of time. Th

ffened.

b. They'll come for you. They'll brand you a threat. They won't stop until you're dead-or

wly rising like heat under her skin. "So I'm a

said. "You're

d up at h

reverence. "They tried to erase your kind. But yo

on the floor. Something inside her-deep a

time, she didn

through her ch

louds scattering across its surface like ghosts. She traced the bandage around her wrist

afraid of

enti

her, a sof

ere," said Brynn, now dr

n. "Came to chal

e northern ridge. Council hunters. Three of

nsed. "H

ys, may

've faced them before. But ne

her. "Is that

that," Brynn said.

er reflection in the glass shimmered-not just

along the outer walls, and in the distance, the forest whispered secrets no

ult-Seraphiel's-ech

rn of ash. The last

s it metaphor, proph

ight spilling through her window. Sleep wouldn't come, not w

n't deny

changed-awakened-and it w

s already on the

se. Something to drown o

ime tossing a dagger into the air

e," she said, noddin

"I don't have

Then let's stop pret

more confidence now, her body no longer foreign. She began to feel the rhythm of

rked after she kn

rolled to her f

o watch. No one jeered this time. No one whis

urned, but she welcomed it

n blasted from

notes-urge

stilled. B

he said. "T

s, the fortre

e gates. Damien stood at the top of the sto

ached, hear

s happ

than expected. Three riders from the Counc

or me," she

rmal inspection. Maybe request to 'escor

pens if I

e to," Damien

hunters arri

ounted like wraiths. The leader, a woman with a

High Order," she said. "We'

hind Damien, h

arry a cursed bloodline. You are to b

reaty of Wilds, she is under my prot

lpha Knights. She lit the ancestral web-do you know h

at," Damien said.

lene snapped. "And

le

d forward, brus

with you," sh

u would refuse a direct s

ause I know what happens to

You don't understand the

ed, "but I'd rather die

ent, neit

d to Damien. "You

eyes hard. "But not becaus

and rode off, vanishing i

warning

cil woul

g ring. The flames of the torches danced b

uietly, dropping a

he said. "You st

ll com

es

they won't b

id softly. "The

wallowe