Invoking the Life Debt

MAEVIA

The silence inside the meditation chamber carried more weight than any argument I had endured with Torin. The herbs had steadied my wolf, but they could not lessen the truth I had come here to speak.

Elder Orion stood beside the basin with his hands folded behind his back. His calm presence never pressed against me, and his authority never demanded submission.

“You said there was more,” he