We turn. Lilith is standing there. She looks older than she did an hour ago. The weight of the ancient knowledge she carries is pressing down on her. "You don't resolve the storm," she repeats, stepping into the room. "You integrate it. But to do that, you need to know what the Moon Goddess actually did." I cross my arms. "Tell us." Lilith walks to the center of the room. She looks at Kade, then at me. "The histories say the Moon Goddess created the divine split to protect the world from the wolves' raw power. That is a lie told to maintain hierarchy." Kade frowns. "Then why did she split the bloodline?" "Because the original pressure—the storm—was not just energy," Lilith says. "It was consciousness. A dormant, planetary consciousness. It was the mind of the earth before life evolv

