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Silver Scream Blood Of The Silver Bond
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00:00I'm Selene, Onelai, daughter of the High Alpha, pride of the Silver Crest Pack, and I have a secret.
00:06Since my first shift, I can hear the memories locked inside our sacred silver relics.
00:11There is grease on the sword hilt.
00:14I have walked. I 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 of the Great
00:31Forge.
00:32Waves of heat shimmered off the stone floor.
00:35The forge itself crouched like a sleeping beast.
00:38My fiancƩ, Lead Warrior Silas, was supposed to be at the packhouse preparing for our lunar 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 and 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! Don't touch me! It's filthy! I'm tainted!
01:36I froze. That wasn't pride. That wasn't joy. That was the sound of something desecrated.
01:41I frowned, focusing my wolf's intent to soothe the silver and deepen the connection.
01:46Selina! You need to leave. It's disgusting in here.
01:51My stomach dropped. The totem was hollow. Wide-mouthed for the final smelting pore.
01:55A grown man could fit inside.
01:57What's in there? I asked through the connection.
02:00It's the warrior. It's Silamus.
02:03He's inside me right now. And he brought a woman.
02:12The world cracked open. Every sweet memory of faded love turned into a grotesque joke.
02:18They think they're safe here. That the heat hides their sense.
02:21She's crying. Apologizing to you. But Silamus keeps telling her to be louder.
02:25He said you know nothing. That you're just like this vessel.
02:28Prestigious on the outside. Hollow on the inside. Waiting for him to fill you with his ambition!
02:33It's sickening. How could he say that to his Luna? How does he dare?
02:38Ah! More filth is dripping. I'm so dirty! When will they leave? I want the forge lit right now.
02:45Let the fire turn them to ash. Let's see if they're as hot as the molten silver.
02:49So that was it. The perfect match. The faded love. All of it. A 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.
03:04Inside the very gift meant to bless our bond. I didn't need to guess who she was.
03:09Liana. His fragile childhood friend. The Omega who always dropped her eyes when I passed.
03:14Whatever the Alpha's daughter decided.
03:17What a dutiful Omega. A cold numbness crawled from my fingertips straight to my heart.
03:23My blood turned to ice. My limbs locked. The 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. He said, you get the title, but she gets his soul.
03:42So what was I? A ladder for his climbed Alpha? An expensive ornament for his mantle?
03:46I slowly, very slowly, pulled my hand back. I looked at the massive vessel, the monument to my own stupidity.
03:53And I understood. The totem was right. It 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. I'm so pleased. I won't wait for the lunar peak. Ignite the great forge now.
04:10I want to strike the spark myself to ensure our union is blessed by the flame.
04:18My lady, this is impossible. The lunar alignment was calculated by Elder Malayli himself.
04:24Night after night. Reading the stars, it ensures the totem is perfected.
04:28It brings harmony to your union with the warrior.
04:30To ignite it now, it could offend the ancestors. It is against Pac-Law. It is a dark omen.
04:35Against Pac-Law? A dark omen? Master Barret? Are 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. Is 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. I meant nothing.
05:04Then do as I say. I 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?
05:40You heard the alpha's daughter! Seal the forge! Now!
05:50Burn them! Burn them!
05:52I want to feel them sizzle into charred bone inside me!
05:56Let us be bound together, forever.
06:02Stop!
06:04Stop! Everyone, stop this instant!
06:07My lady, you cannot.
06:11You absolutely cannot do this!
06:14Elder Malecon, you seem distressed. What 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.
06:25Its timing was calculated against your birth moon and the warrior's own stars are delicate balance.
06:29The silver will crack. Or 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, the conquences of that union are already set in motion.
06:41My lady, the elder is right. Please, think of the pack!
06:49Elder, 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. If the sacred silver were already filled with something,
07:06filthy, should I wait for your blessing and let that rot bleed into our lineage?
07:10Or 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.
07:22He 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
07:37ancestors themselves stepped back. My lady, if the silver is truly tainted,
07:44then the fire is the only way. He stepped back, white robes rippling in the rising heat,
07:50head bowed in submission. The Smiths saw their last shield for tradition disappear. They didn't
07:57hesitate. They heaved the final stones into place and sealed the great forge's mouth with thick,
08:01wet clay. Darkness that could only end one way. Inside, the echo gave one last sound, a low,
08:08chilling giggle. They're awake now. They know the door is gone. Oh, they're scratching at my ribs.
08:14I didn't blink. I reached for the ceremonial torch. The torch was heavy, its tips soaked in oils that
08:20smelled of pine resin and ancient magic. I raised it. The orange light danced in my eyes.
08:25Burn it all down, she whispered. Burn the lies. Burn the traitors. Burn the bitch who thought she
08:30could steal the alpha crown. I stepped forward. The heat was already bleeding through the stone
08:34walls. My hand was perfectly steady as I lowered the flame to the ignition vent at the base of the
08:39forge. For the glory of the silver crest pack. My voice rang out clean and clear for every smith and
08:45elder present. May this fire refine our future and consume every shadow that dares to linger in the
08:52dark. The flame touched the fuel. A dull thump rolled up from deep inside the forge,
08:56the fire catching. Or maybe, a kick against the silver walls. Then the roar began. The great forge
09:02bellowed as heat surged upward, wrapping around the totem like something hungry. The echo screamed
09:06one final time. Pure, ecstatic agony. It's hot! It's so wonderfully hot! I can feel them melting into me!
09:15Sacred silver doesn't smelt fast. Three days, three nights, unrelenting heat. I didn't leave. I had
09:21a chair brought to the forge floor and I sat there, silent, draped in fur, watching every shift of every
09:26smith. By the second day, word had spread through the pack. Lead warrior Silas had gone missing just
09:31before the ceremony. Panic rippled through the ranks. I played the grieving, frantic mate without a single
09:36missed beat. When my father, the high alpha, arrived demanding answers, I turned to him with tear-filled eyes.
09:42Silas told me he wanted our bond to be the strongest the pack had ever seen. I felt a dark
09:46omen, father.
09:47I had to start the forge early, to pray for him, to protect him through the holy fire. My father
09:51sat
09:51beside me for over an hour, moved by my devotion. He had no idea the man he was searching for
09:57was
09:57currently becoming ash and slag inside the fire we were watching together. Liana's disappearance was
10:02noted too, but she was an omega. Her flight was dismissed as cowardice. No one looked twice. On the
10:07third night, the 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
10:29forge master and sent Elder Malazza into a cold sweat. This is your binding ceremony and you're
10:34standing here with a torch like some- Mother! I know what I'm doing. Do you? Because from where I'm
10:40standing,
10:40you look like a girl throwing a tantrum the night before the most important moment of her life.
10:44Selena, 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. I've
11:13always tried to do that. But there is something filthy in there right now. Something that has been
11:18rubbing itself all over the symbol of my future bond. If I leave it, if I wait for the blessed
11:25hour and let the
11:25holy 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.
11:38Because if I do, it stops being my problem and becomes the pack's problem.
11:42And 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. Selima. How long have you known? Long enough.
12:01She closed her eyes. I watched her make the choice.
12:05You are the High Alpha's daughter. Whatever you do, make sure you can live with the consequence.
12:12And make sure it doesn't embarrass this family. She didn't look at the forge again.
12:16Return 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, the torch,
12:34and 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 line. All of it.
12:52I raised the torch. I threw the torch. It caught instantly. A crack of sound, then the low whomp of
12:57fuel 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 watched.
13:37Seven days. I didn't leave the forge yard. I slept in a tent erected thirty feet from the kiln.
13:42I ate what the smiths brought me. The fire never dropped below white hot. By the second day,
13:46the disappearances had reached every corner of the territory. Lead warrior Silas, gone. Vanished
13:51the mourning of his own binding ceremony. Not a trace. Liana, gone too. The quiet Omega,
13:56who'd always kept her eyes down. Fled in shame, people said. Too cowardly to face
14:00the fallout of her Alpha's abandonment. The gossip twisted itself into a dozen shapes.
14:04The most popular version, they'd run away together. Couldn't bear to be separated.
14:08Silas's family turned the territory upside down. Search parties. Desperate favors called in. Nothing.
14:16When 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. I felt something wrong in the stars, father. I had to start the fire. I had to pray
14:33for him. My father put his arm around me and stayed for an hour. He had no idea the man
14:37he was searching
14:37for was 40 feet away, becoming slag inside the silver we were watching together. On the seventh night,
14:42the roar faded to a low, even hum. I stood up. Open it!
14:47Barrett 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
15:19fracture. But 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
16:11had seen something. 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 me.
16:36Silas' father moved to the other side. His face went the color of chalk.
16:40On the totem's flank, half-merged into the glaze, was the ghost of a warrior's seal.
16:45The kind every packfighter carried as their mark. Then he looked at me.
16:52Silas told me once that he wanted a bond that could survive anything.
16:58That he wanted something that would last forever.
17:04My father summoned me three days later. Not to the great hall. Not in front of the elders.
17:08To his private study. He was seated when I arrived. He looked at me for a very long time without
17:12speaking.
17:13Sivine.
17:17Do 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.
17:31That's all you admit?
17:33Yes.
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. Something I hadn't expected.
17:50Here is what happened.
17:52Silas and the Omega Lyanna fled the pack together. Unable to face the shame of their betrayal.
17:58Their whereabouts are unknown.
17:59The one forged for your ceremony was successfully completed.
18:02As a testament to your devotion.
18:05It will be called the Ember Throne.
18:07It 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 arrived at my quarters. It took six wolves to carry it.
18:27They set it at the far end of my main hall. The first thing you saw when you walked in.
18:31The last thing you saw when you left. It was still that deep saturated crimson.
18:36Still mirror smooth. Still beautiful.
18:38I stood in front of it for a long time after the carriers had gone. I waited for the echo.
18:43There was nothing.
18:45I reached out. My fingers stopped an inch from the surface. And I realized I didn't want to touch it.
18:50I lowered my hand. I stood back and looked at what I'd made. Every relic in my room. The mirror,
18:55the lyre, the blade on the wall. Not out of fear. Not out of grief. I just didn't need to.
19:00Stayed silent. They had gone quiet sometime in the last seven days and not come back.
19:04The constant hum of voices I'd carried since my first shift. Gone. My world had never been so still.
19:14That's a good person why they all walked back and went right and they were going right and this society.
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