"Hey,” she murmured. “Listen to me.”
I met her gaze, my eyes wide and hazy as I adjusted to the real world again. It felt like the visions never cleared fast enough, like I was always dazed for longer than I should be.
"She won''t hurt them," Rae said firmly. "Not while I''m breathing. She''ll have to go through me first."
The conviction in her voice steadied something inside me. Not because I wanted Rae in harm''s way-but because she believed it,pletely. Her conviction reminded me of Nn in that moment.
I nodded, swallowing hard. "I need to tell Nn."
"I know," Rae said. "We will."
She nced around the courtyard, subtle but alert, then stood smoothly, offering me a hand.
"Let''s take them inside."
As we gathered the boys and headed back toward the packhouse, the sunlight felt harsher somehow, theughter too loud.
The storm hadn''t broken.
But it had shown its teeth.
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The call came just after dusk.
I knew it was the prison before the words were even spoken.
"Alpha," the guard said tightly over the line. "It''s the rogue. He''s awake. He''s... agitated He''s demanding to see you."
I closed my eyes briefly, jaw tightening.
Again. His visions seemed to coincide with Ellie''s. After what she''d seen today, I was sure that this call would being.
"I''m on my way," I said.
I didn''t tell Ellie where I was going. Not yet. She was already shaken, disturbed by what she''d seen. She was sleeping curled in the rocking chair in the nursery.
She refused to move. All I could do was bring her a nket and a pillow from our bed and hope that being near the boys would ease the pain in her heart.
I could still see the way Ellie''s hands had trembled as she held the boys earlier today. How her eyes had glistened as she told me about the vision.
The prison wards thrummed as I descended into the building, responding to my presence with a faint prickle along my skin.
The guards looked unsettled when I arrived.
“He hasn''t stopped talking," one of them said. "But none of it makes sense.
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It rarely did. This was the same report I got from the guards every time I checked on himtely. They didn''t know about the connection the rogue had to Ellie''s goddess visions. To them, he was a raving lunatic.
The cell door slid open with a heavy groan.
The rogue was pacing like a caged animal, bare feet pping against stone, chains clinking with each erratic movement. His hair hung in wild tangles around his face, eyes too bright, skin slick with sweat.
He froze the moment he saw me.
Then he screamed.
"The shadow!" he shrieked, wing at the air as if trying to push something away.
"She''sing-can''t you see her? She walks in blood and bone-"
"Enough," I snapped, my voice echoing through the chamber.
His gaze locked onto mine, pupils blown wide.
"She will have blood," he rasped, voice breaking. "She will have the blood of Moonstone."
The words hit like a physical blow.
"What do you mean?" I demanded, stepping closer. "Who?"
The blood of Moonstone could mean the boys, Cassian, ric, or Ellie. It was too damn vague, I needed to know.
Heughed a high, cracking sound that set my teeth on edge. "The blood follows the outcast."
Ellie.
My wolf surged, hackles rising. "What is she nning? What is the shadow woman after?!"
The rogue''sughter cut off abruptly. His eyes widened further, terror eclipsing the madness for a split second.
"She''s already chosen," he whispered. "The stormes with a price."
Then he copsed.
At first, I thought he''d fainted.
Then I felt it-the sudden, absolute absence.
"Medic!" I barked, dropping to one knee beside him.
The guards rushed in, but it was already toote. His bodyy unnaturally still, eyes
staring sightlessly at the ceiling, mouth frozen mid-snarl.
No wound.
No poison.
Just fear.
Pure, overwhelming fear.
I straightened slowly, dread curling cold in my gut.
Ellie''s vision. His words.
Blood of Moonstone.
The outcast.
I turned and left the cell without another nce back.
The storm wasn''t justing anymore.
It was naming its targets.
And we were out of time.
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