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SILVER SCREAM BLOOD OF THE SILVER BOND - Full EP
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00:00I'm Selene, Onalai daughter of the High Alpha, Pride of the Silver Crest Pack, and I have
00:06a secret.
00:06Since my first shift, I can hear the memories locked inside our sacred silver relics.
00:11There is Greece on the Sword Hill.
00:14I have walked.
00:15I have also walked, also walked.
00:18It's less a gift and more a never-ending howl I've learned to tune out.
00:22But today, I came to hear my own binding gift.
00:26The silver-binding totem, a six-foot urn forged over an entire year, stood at the center
00:31of the Great Forge.
00:32Waves of heat shimmered off the stone floor.
00:35The forge itself crouched like a sleeping beast.
00:38My fiancé, Lead Warrior Silas, was supposed to be at the Pack House preparing for our
00:42Lunar Ceremony.
00:44We were the perfect pair, border war hero, handsome, always deferential to my rank.
00:50My father called him a gift from the moon herself.
00:52My mother said I'd never do better.
00:54Even the relics in my bedroom sang his name.
00:57His eyes shine like the North Star whenever he looks at you.
01:00His touch makes my strings weep with joy.
01:04I used to believe that.
01:05I used to think my life would be a smooth, golden road.
01:09The Forge Master and his smiths dropped to their knees as I approached.
01:12I waved them off and stepped toward the totem.
01:14The carvings were breathtaking, wolves racing through moonlit forests, every line precise
01:18and sacred.
01:19This was the symbol of our union, the pride of our pack.
01:22I reached out, fingers brushing the cold, hammered silver.
01:26The moment I touched it...
01:28Don't touch me!
01:29Don't touch me!
01:30Don't touch me!
01:30It's filthy!
01:31I'm tainted!
01:36I froze.
01:37That wasn't pride.
01:38That wasn't joy.
01:39That was the sound of something desecrated.
01:41I frowned, focusing my wolf's intent to soothe the silver and deepen the connection.
01:46Selina!
01:47You need to leave!
01:49It's disgusting in here!
01:51My stomach dropped.
01:52The totem was hollow, wide-mouthed for the final smelting pore.
01:55A grown man could fit inside.
01:57What's in there?
01:58I asked through the connection.
02:00It's the warrior.
02:01It's Silomus.
02:03He's inside me right now.
02:06And he brought a woman.
02:12The world cracked open.
02:13Every sweet memory of faded love turned into a grotesque joke.
02:18They think they're safe here, but the heat hides their sense.
02:21She's crying, apologizing to you, but Silomus keeps telling her to be louder.
02:25He said you know nothing, that you're just like this vessel, prestigious on the outside,
02:30hollow on the inside, waiting for him to fill you with his ambition!
02:34It's sickening.
02:35How could he say that to his Luna?
02:37How does he dare?
02:38Ah!
02:39More filth is dripping!
02:40I'm so dirty!
02:42When will they leave?
02:43I want the forge lit right now.
02:45Let the fire turn them to ash.
02:46Let's see if they're as hot as the molten silver.
02:49So that was it.
02:50The perfect match.
02:52The faded love.
02:53All of it.
02:54A calculated hunt.
02:58Every tender moment he'd ever given me was a performance.
03:01He was basking in the glory I provided while rutting with his true heart's desire,
03:05inside the very gift meant to bless our bond.
03:07I didn't need to guess who she was.
03:09Liana.
03:10His fragile childhood friend.
03:12The Omega who always dropped her eyes when I passed.
03:15Whatever the Alpha's daughter decided.
03:17What a dutiful Omega.
03:19A cold numbness crawled from my fingertips straight to my heart.
03:23My blood turned to ice.
03:25My limbs locked.
03:26The sounds of the forge dissolved.
03:28She's begging him to take her as a second mate after the ceremony.
03:32Silas just laughed and promised he would.
03:35He said, you get the title, but she gets his soul.
03:42So what was I?
03:43A ladder for his climbed Alpha?
03:45An expensive ornament for his mantle?
03:47I slowly, very slowly, pulled my hand back.
03:50I looked at the massive vessel.
03:51The monument to my own stupidity.
03:53And I understood.
03:54The totem was right.
03:55It was time to light the fire.
03:57I turned to the forge master who was watching me nervously.
04:01Is something wrong with the silver, my lady?
04:03No, it's magnificent.
04:04I'm so pleased.
04:06I won't wait for the lunar peak.
04:08Ignite the great forge now.
04:10I want to strike the spark myself.
04:12To ensure our union is blessed by the flame.
04:18My lady, this is impossible.
04:20The lunar alignment was calculated by Elder Malayli himself.
04:24Night after night.
04:25Reading the stars, it ensures the totem is perfected.
04:28It brings harmony to your union with the warrior.
04:31To ignite it now, it could offend the ancestors.
04:33It is against pack law.
04:34It is a dark omen.
04:35Against pack law?
04:36A dark omen, Master Barrett?
04:39Are you questioning my devotion to my own mate?
04:42Never, my lady, never.
04:44I stand here, looking at this masterpiece, and my heart is full.
04:51They say sincerity moves the moon.
04:53Is my sincerity not worth more than a line on a chart?
04:57Or do you believe my bloodline is too weak to command a single forge fire?
05:02Forgive me, my lady.
05:03I meant nothing.
05:04Then do as I say.
05:05I will see it enter the flames today.
05:08I will strike the spark myself.
05:13I will forge the blessing for my eternal union with the warrior.
05:20If there is a curse, I'll carry it alone.
05:24If it succeeds, every man here will be rewarded in silver.
05:33I obey, my lady.
05:37Seal the forge!
05:39What are you waiting for?
05:41You heard the alpha's daughter!
05:43Seal the forge!
05:44Now!
05:50Burn them!
05:51Burn them!
05:52I want to feel them sizzle into charred bone inside me!
05:56Let us be bound together, forever!
06:02Stop!
06:04Stop!
06:05Everyone, stop this instant!
06:08My lady, you cannot...
06:11You absolutely cannot do this!
06:14Elder Malachon, you seem distressed.
06:16What brings you to the forge so urgently?
06:18My lady, I came to stop this madness.
06:21This vessel carries the pack's future, your bloodline's prosperity.
06:25If its timing was calculated against your birth moon and the warrior's own stars are delicate balance,
06:29the silver will crack.
06:31Or worse, if it plants misfortune in your union.
06:33A rot that spreads through the entire pack from within.
06:36And even if you manage to red yourself a bit,
06:39the conquences of that union are already set in motion.
06:42My lady, the Elder is right!
06:43Please, think of the pack!
06:48Elder, tell me, does your prophecy value the hour of the clock, or the truth of the heart?
06:57Prophecy is the intersection of both, my lady. One cannot exist without the other.
07:01Well said. Then let me ask you this.
07:03If the sacred silver were already filled with something filthy, should I wait for your blessing
07:08and let that rot bleed into our lineage? Or should I act now, and let the holy fire purge it?
07:19Malachi's hand slid off his staff. His fingers trembled against the wood.
07:23He looked into my eyes, and whatever he found, there was no longer the pampered Alpha's daughter
07:27he'd known since birth. He looked at the half-sealed forge, then back at me, his mouth opened, closed.
07:33He was the pack's spiritual voice, but even he knew a true blood's rage was a force the ancestors
07:38themselves stepped back. My lady, if the silver is truly tainted, then the fire is the only way.
07:47He stepped back, white robes rippling in the rising heat, head bowed in submission. The smiths
07:53saw their last shield, for tradition, disappear. They didn't hesitate. They heaved the final stones
07:59into place and sealed the great forge's mouth with thick, wet clay. Darkness that could only
08:04end one way. Inside, the echo gave one last sound, a low, chilling giggle. They're awake now.
08:10They know the door is gone. Oh, they're scratching at my ribs. I didn't blink. I reached for the
08:16ceremonial torch. The torch was heavy, its tips soaked in oils that smelled of pine resin and ancient
08:22magic. I raised it. The orange light danced in my eyes. Burn it all down, she whispered.
08:27Burn the lies. Burn the traitors. Burn the bitch who thought she could steal the alpha crown.
08:32I stepped forward. The heat was already bleeding through the stone walls. My hand was perfectly
08:36steady as I lowered the flame to the ignition vent at the base of the forge. For the glory of
08:41the silver
08:41crest pack. My voice rang out clean and clear for every smith and elder present. May this fire refine
08:48our future and consume every shadow that dares to linger in the dark. The flame touched the fuel.
08:54A dull thump rolled up from deep inside the forge. The fire catching, or maybe, a kick against the silver
08:59walls. Then the roar began. The great forge bellowed as heat surged upward, wrapping around the totem like
09:04something hungry. The echo screamed one final time. Pure, ecstatic agony. It's hot! It's so wonderfully hot!
09:11I can feel them melting into me! Sacred silver doesn't smelt fast. Three days, three nights,
09:19unrelenting heat. I didn't leave. I had a chair brought to the forge floor and I sat there,
09:23silent, draped in fur, watching every shift of every smith. By the second day, word had spread
09:28through the pack. Lead warrior Silas had gone missing just before the ceremony. Panic rippled through the
09:33ranks. I played the grieving, frantic mate without a single missed beat. When my father, the high alpha,
09:38arrived demanding answers. I turned to him with tear-filled eyes. Silas told me he wanted our bond
09:44to be the strongest the pack had ever seen. I felt a dark omen, father. I had to start the
09:48forge early,
09:49to pray for him, to protect him through the holy fire. My father sat beside me for over an hour,
09:53moved by my devotion. He had no idea the man he was searching for was currently becoming ash and slag
09:59inside the fire we were watching together. Liana's disappearance was noted too, but she was an
10:03omega. Her flight was dismissed as cowardice. No one looked twice. On the third night,
10:08the roar of the forge softened to a low melodic hum. The silver was ready.
10:16Selina! Put that down. Put it down right now, Selene. What in the ancestor's name are you doing?
10:25You've left the pack house. You've overrode in the ceremony calendar. You've threatened the forge master
10:30and sent Elder Malazza into a cold sweat. This is your binding ceremony and you're standing here
10:35with a torch like some- Mother! I know what I'm doing. Do you? Because from where I'm standing,
10:40you look like a girl throwing a tantrum the night before the most important moment of her life.
10:44Selene, did you and Silas argue? Is that what this is? That's normal. Every mated pair has friction
10:50before the ceremony. You have to be patient. Gracious. You're about to become his luna.
10:58Gracious.
11:06Mother, you raised me to carry the pack's honor. To be something the whole territory could look up to.
11:12I've always tried to do that. But there is something filthy in there right now. Something
11:18that has been rubbing itself all over the symbol of my future bond. If I leave it, if I wait
11:24for the
11:24blessed hour and let the holy fire seal that filth into our union, what does that make me?
11:34What- what exactly are you- I can't say it out loud. Because if I do, it stops being
11:40my problem and
11:40becomes the pack's problem. And I know how much you love this pack, Mother.
11:49Then another. Her eyes went from me, to the forge, to the torch in my hand, and back again. For
11:54a long
11:54moment, she said nothing. Selene, how long have you known? Long enough. She closed her eyes. I watched
12:03her make the choice. You are the High Alpha's daughter. Whatever you do,
12:10make sure you can live with the consequence. And make sure it doesn't embarrass this family.
12:15She didn't look at the forge again. Return to the pack house.
12:19The last soft thing in my chest went with her. Good. I turned back to the forge.
12:29There was nothing left in my way. No elder, no forge master, no mother. Just me,
12:33the torch, and the sealed mouth of the great forge. The totem's echo had gone quiet, not frightened.
12:39Waiting, coiled and ready, the way a wolf waits before a strike. I walked to the ignition vent.
12:43The heat rolled off the stone in waves. Do it, my wolf said. Burn the lie. All of it.
12:52I raised the torch. I threw the torch. It caught, instantly. A crack of sound. Then the low
12:57whomp of fuel, igniting deep in the stone belly of the forge. Then the roar, the great forge, came alive.
13:05With a sound like the world splitting open. Heat punched through the vent and across my face. Inside,
13:11the totem sent me one last burst of feeling. Not words, just pure, ecstatic relief. Like something
13:16finally, finally clean. Add fuel. Continually. Maximum heat. Seven days and seven nights.
13:25Don't let it drop. Not once. I looked at Master Barrett. He bowed without a word.
13:31I took a chair and sat six feet from the forge mouth, and I washed.
13:38Seven days. I didn't leave the forge yard. I slept in a tent erected 30 feet from the kiln. I
13:42ate what the
13:43smiths brought me. The fire never dropped below white hot. By the second day, the disappearances
13:47had reached every corner of the territory. Lead warrior Silas, gone. Vanished the mourning of his
13:52own binding ceremony. Not a trace. Liana, gone too. The quiet omega who'd always kept her eyes down.
13:58Fled in shame, people said. Too cowardly to face the fallout of her alpha's abandonment.
14:02The gossip twisted itself into a dozen shapes. The most popular version. They'd run away together.
14:07Couldn't bear to be separated. Silas's family turned the territory upside down. Search parties.
14:11Desperate favors called in. Nothing.
14:17When my father, the high alpha, rode out to the forge on the third day, I met him with red
14:21-rimmed
14:21eyes and a trembling lower lip. He told me he wanted our bond to be the strongest in our pack's
14:27history.
14:27I felt something wrong in the stars, father. I had to start the fire. I had to pray for him.
14:33My father put his arm around me and stayed for an hour. He had no idea the man he was
14:37searching for
14:37when the door was forty feet away, becoming slag inside the silver we were watching together.
14:41On the seventh night, the roar faded to a low, even hum. I stood up.
14:44Open it!
14:47Barret ordered cold water, poured over the forge walls. Steam screamed upward in great white columns.
14:52Bricks cracked and popped in the sudden chill. When the smiths began pulling the sealed stones away,
14:57every person on that yard held their breath. The outer bricks came down, then the inner layer,
15:01then the clay. A smell rolled out. Something between hot earth, metal, and something else.
15:05Something no one commented on. Two of the most experienced smiths went in. They came back out,
15:09carrying a platform between them. And on it, the binding totem. Intact. It hadn't cracked,
15:14hadn't warped. It had survived seven days of white-hot, continuous heat without a single fracture.
15:19But it was transformed. The raw silver-gray of the unfired metal was gone entirely. In its place,
15:24a deep, saturated crimson, rich as old blood, warm as a dying ember. The glaze was perfect,
15:30mirror smooth. The carved wolves on its surface caught the morning light and threw it back in long,
15:35shimmering streaks. It was, without question, the most beautiful thing anyone in that yard had ever
15:40seen. The ancestors blessed it. One of them whispered. They blessed it, after all. I walked
15:46toward it slowly. I stopped two feet away. I looked at it for a long moment. Are they still in
15:50there?
15:50A warmth pressed back against my mind. Quiet and settled. Content. Yes, good.
15:58Silas' father, the old warrior lord, with three of his sons. Liana's mother with her brother,
16:03both clutching each other. The territory sheriff trailing behind them, face pale and professionally
16:07blank. They'd heard the forge had opened. They'd come on the chance that someone here had seen
16:11something. When they spotted me standing next to the totem, her eyes had dropped to the base
16:15of the totem. She went still. Her voice came out strange. She stepped closer. Her hand went to her
16:22mouth. That's Liana's moonstone. She never took it off. I gave it to her the day she presented.
16:36Silas' father moved to the other side. His face went the color of chalk. On the totem's flank,
16:41half merged into the glaze, was the ghost of a warrior's seal. The kind every pack fighter
16:47carried as their mark. Then he looked at me. Silas told me once that he wanted a bond that could
16:57survive anything. That he wanted something that would last forever. My father summoned me three
17:05days later, not to the great hall, not in front of the elders, to his private study. He was seated
17:10when
17:10I arrived. He looked at me for a very long time without speaking.
17:16Savine. Do you admit fault?
17:21I admit I chose the wrong mate. I nearly brought shame onto this bloodline.
17:26And?
17:28I admit I didn't act sooner.
17:32That's all you admit?
17:34Yes.
17:41You have more spine than both your brothers combined.
17:44He rose from his chair and walked to me. He put his hand on my shoulder and lifted me to
17:48my feet.
17:49Something I hadn't expected.
17:50Here is what happened. Silas and the Omega Liana fled the pack together, unable to face the shame of their
17:56betrayal. Their whereabouts are unknown. The one forged for your ceremony was successfully completed.
18:03As a testament to your devotion. It will be called the Ember Throne. It will be placed in your hall.
18:09You will look at it every day.
18:11As I turned to go, I heard him exhale, slow and long, like a man setting down something very heavy.
18:24The Ember Throne
18:24The Ember Throne arrived at my quarters. It took six wolves to carry it. They set it at the far
18:29end of my
18:29main hall. The first thing you saw when you walked in. The last thing you saw when you left. It
18:34was
18:34still that deep saturated crimson. Still mirror smooth. Still beautiful. I stood in front of it for
18:40a long time. After the carriers had gone, I waited for the echo. There was nothing. I reached out. My
18:46fingers stopped an inch from the surface. And I realized I didn't want to touch it. I lowered my
18:51hand. I stood back and looked at what I'd made. Every relic in my room. The mirror. The liar. The
18:56blade on the wall. Not out of fear. Not out of grief. I just didn't need to. Stayed silent. They
19:01had gone
19:01quiet sometime in the last seven days and not come back. The constant hum of voices I'd carried since
19:06my first shift. Gone, my world had never been so still.
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