Chapter 512 - CHAPTER 512 — The Brothers Who Remembered

The fissure beneath Blackpine Forest continued to widen as crimson light moved through the soil like living veins, yet the terrible force that had frozen every wolf in place seemed to weaken just enough for Alessandro to breathe and turn his head towards his brother. His hand was still locked around Alexander's wrist, and when the pale light fell across their joined arms, Alexander noticed something he had failed to see before: a fresh cut crossing the back of Alessandro's hand, the skin split and darkened by blood where the collapsing earth had caught him moments earlier. It was an insignificant wound compared with the danger surrounding them, but Alexander stared at it as though the sight had opened a door inside his memory that he had spent half his life keeping shut.