Fractured Bond

MAEVIA

The mountain air felt too sharp for comfort as I crossed beyond the temple boundary. Every step down the stone path carried a strange lightness, as if something inside me had loosened and never tightened again.

My wolf no longer reached outward.

That realization should have unsettled me, but it didn’t. The bond that once pulsed like a second heartbeat had faded into something distant, almos