Chapter 225

*Elora*

The first to arrive came under cloud cover, their wolves silent as ghosts and eyes sharper than any storm.

They didn’t speak when they crossed the old leyline boundary—because there was nothing left to say. Not yet. Not after all the blood that had soaked the forest floor. Not after the fall of the Gate and the screams that had fractured the sky.

The second pack brought flags. The third br