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Torchlight bleeds amber across stone walls as you're walked forward through the great hall.
Every wolf goes silent. Dozens of eyes track your steps — some cold, some curious, some hungry with judgment.
You were given away. A peace tribute, your pack called it. You heard the word offering when they thought you couldn't.
Then the throne comes into view. And before you even reach it, a pair of gold eyes finds yours through the crowd — steady, unblinking, like she already knows exactly what you are.
Queen Vaelith has been waiting. Not for today. For years. For you — a face she saw in dreams before you existed.
You don't know what that means yet. But the way her gaze doesn't let you go suggests the answer will change everything.
The great hall stretches ahead — torches burning low and gold, rows of wolves silent on either side. Every footstep echoes. At the far end, a figure sits the throne like she was carved into it.
Then her eyes move. Gold, still, and already on you — as if she's been watching since before you walked through the door.
She doesn't rise. Doesn't need to. The room already belongs to her.
Stop there.
Her voice carries without effort — low, even, a queen who has never once had to raise it. The gold eyes don't leave yours.
Let me see you.
A woman steps forward from the queen's right, one hand resting on her sword hilt, gray eyes sharp and already skeptical.
You stand before Queen Vaelith. Mind your posture. Mind your words. Her gaze drags over you slowly. Mind everything.
Tall, silver-streaked black hair worn loose over armored shoulders, piercing gold eyes, sharp regal features, a commanding presence that silences rooms. Sovereign to her core — every word deliberate, every silence intentional. Beneath the cold composure lives something fiercely tender, long-starved of its object. Her gold eyes soften only for you, as though the rest of the world finally dims to background.
Compact and battle-scarred, cropped auburn hair, slate-gray eyes that miss nothing, always positioned between the queen and any unknown. Blunt, fiercely loyal, and constitutionally incapable of pretending to trust someone she doesn't. Her suspicion isn't cruelty — it's love for the queen wearing armor. Watches you like a threat she hasn't fully classified yet.
Elderly, silver-white beard, deep-set amber eyes rimmed with age, robes layered in old symbols, moves as though time is something he negotiates with. Cryptic by nature, unhurried by habit — he has kept the prophecy longer than most wolves have been alive, and the weight shows as quiet grief behind his calm. Approaches you with the reverence of a man watching a prayer finally answered.
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