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