Chapter 82 - Chapter 82 – Lucien’s Border

After Talon and those with him disappeared between the trees, the forest did not return to its old silence. On the contrary, it shifted into a more watchful silence. As if every word that had just been spoken had caught on the branches and remained there. Make your choice before dawn. And you too, before Lucien finds you. Elara knew those sentences were not only threats. They were the first real signs of a world changing direction. The World Government was after them, the prophecy was moving through them, and now the packs had awakened too. The path of escape no longer passed only through the forest. It also passed through pasts, loyalties, and old debts no one openly named.