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Chapter 15: Shadows in the Depths
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/-Alora-/The shaking beneath my feet had somehow, in a troubadourial way, moved to my gut, where cold fear had firmly installed itself. Lyanna's words just hung in the air, a warning of sorts—something more was to come, its echo running through the tissues of my bones.Randall did not stop. His hand shot out and pulled my arm toward the tight tunnel we'd entered through."Move," he growled, and I knew he was taut with speed. Firmly, he grasped me, not painfully, as if I was the last link to his reason in this madness.I didn't need a lot more help along that line. From the moment Lyanna spoke the word of the Wight and its illegal union with me, every sense in my body screamed that danger was closing in on me from all sides. My heart drummed against my chest as we threaded the twisted path, the air clotting with every step we took away from the center of the room.But Lyanna was already well ahead, her glowing stick throwing long, twisting shadows across the crude stone of the walls.
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/-Alora-/A blast of light blinded him for a second, but did little to arrest the rogue's momentum. Within seconds he was on his feet, snarling, his yellow eyes aglow with malice. He lunged for Randall first, claws outstretched, but Randall was too fast.These two had collided in a bone-crushing fashion, and I heard the sickly crack of bones beneath the weight of their clash. Randall was strong, but this rogue wasn't any wolf; he was more feral, more dangerous. I could see it in his eyes. This was no mere pack warrior; this was a hunter, a predator bred for destruction.But it wasn't the rogue I had feared.From the darkness behind him, a figure emerged—silently deadly. The air thickened with an energy that seemed to crawl across my skin; the temperature dropped. A presence far darker than that of any Lycan, it was something more ancient, something born of shadows long forgotten.I stepped backward, my heart racing against my chest. What was that?"Alora!" Randall yelled urgently and
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/Alora/The air was filled with tension, thick with the scent of pine and wolf smell; the earth beneath my feet seemed unstable, held in a breath of anticipation.My face was inches from the Lycan's, my pulse rushing with the snarl directed at me as his glowing eyes nailed mine, their weight shaking me right down to my soul.Randalls' form towered beside me, his big wolf body set protectively between me and the beast, but even with all that, I felt the gazes of the Lycan on me, recognizing me, assessing me. It was chasing me, not as prey simply, but for something. more."Get back, Alora," Randall growled, a clear threat laced into his tone.I did nothing but take a step forward, my heart rushing, until the storm of darkness inside me stirred, rose in a flood so wild and strong. It wasn't a sound anymore, a tiny stream. It was a storm. I could feel it thud beneath my skin, stretching for release. This was the power I fought with all my might to hold in, the power I was afraid of.Yet,
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/Alora/The forest lay still around us, and after any sort of spoliation comes the shocked stillness when even the birds are too stunned to sing.But the Lycan’s blood’s scent now hung heavy in the air; further than that, the scent that clung to the very edging, the female of the scent of the Lycan—held an even deeper overtone, the throbbing of the wild power that I have released.The humming of my hands, with that energy, so alien yet strong coursing inside, and then suddenly racing as if a sluice gate had been opened, wouldn't leave me alone and sent shivers down my body.Randall stood beside me, his chest heaving, the weight of what had just passed leaving a shadow on his face. And in his eyes, a mix of awe and fear stared back, but there was something beneath it, a question unsaid, a weight between us.You're not a force of nature, Alora." The low, guttural quality to his voice raised my skin into gooseflesh. "You are something else."I twisted toward him, still catching my breath
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/-Alora-/The moon was full and hung heavy through the thick forest above. The clearing area was very quiet except for the rustle of trees and the snaps of twigs under our feet.Lyanna's words weighed on me with the suffocating pressure of a smothering fog; there was no relief from the sense that the world around me was constantly in change, in ways too grand for me to even begin to understand.Prophecy, ancient power. Neither had ever figured into my plans."Chosen," I said to myself because it sounded stupid if said out loud. "Chosen for what?Her eyes, older than the forest itself, spoke to me with a sad understanding. "To balance, Alora. To right the wrongs that have festered for so many ages. You bear the blood of those who once ruled these lands, before the betrayal, before the fall.I turned to Randall, quiet beside me, arms crossed over his chest. He watched Lyanna closely, his face unreadable, but the tightness in his jaw told me he was listening."The fall," I said, my voice
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