The first sign came with the sky.
It wasn’t just darker, it was wrong.
The sun hung low and pale, swallowed by a heavy grey ring that stretched across the horizon. It wasn’t time for the eclipse yet, but the air already carried that strange stillness, like the world was holding its breath.
The pack felt it too. The wolves were restless. Some refused to leave the compound at all. Even the forest animals went quiet, hiding before the first shadow touched the trees.
I stood outside the training field, staring at the light breaking through the clouds. It flickered like lightning, but there was no storm. Just that eerie pulse of energy that crawled through my veins every few minutes.
Eryx walked up behind me, his face drawn tight. “It’s starting.” He said.
“How soon?”
He looked toward th
