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(Version 2) The pack is in chaos as they wait for their Queen. #Werewolf
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00:00I was the first female alpha in the history of the Silver Moon pack to earn the ultimate mark of
00:04honor.
00:05For 15 years I bled for my people, yet my mate called me cold.
00:10My pack called me a tyrant.
00:11Even my own parents and my little girl claimed they loved my adopted Omega sister Leah more than me.
00:17So, with only 3 days left to live, I made a choice.
00:20I would give them everything they ever wanted.
00:23I would hand over my entire life to the perfect woman they all adored.
00:26So why, after learning the truth, did they come back in tears and asking for another chance?
00:32I forced my broken body to stay upright, my eyes fixed on the pack territory beyond.
00:38Beneath my shirt, jagged, blackened veins crawled up my chest.
00:42The silver poison was inching closer to my heart.
00:46It was a parting gift from the rogue ambush on our borders.
00:49The High Priestess had made it painfully clear.
00:52Without the Moon Goddess's purification ritual, I had 78 hours left.
00:55Three days, at most.
00:58But when I dragged my bleeding, battered body to the High Priestess,
01:01I found my entire pack gathered around my adopted sister.
01:05They were fretting over a tiny, superficial silver scratch on her arm.
01:08Footsteps approached from behind.
01:10It was Cain.
01:11Are you alright?
01:12He wore that familiar look of impatient obligation.
01:15I'm fine.
01:17Elder Lawble said you urgently need the purification ritual, but...
01:20But Leah needs it more.
01:22Right?
01:23You have to understand, Alice.
01:26Leah's barely hanging on.
01:27She's an Omega.
01:29You...
01:29You look fine.
01:31Leah.
01:32The stray I had begged my parents to adopt when I was 12.
01:35She was an Omega.
01:36Sweet, fragile, and desperate for protection.
01:38I had loved her like my own flesh and blood,
01:40never imagining she would strip me of everything I held dear.
01:43Of course I looked fine.
01:45No one knew that I was using every ounce of my Alpha aura
01:48to suppress the rotting agony inside me,
01:51just so they wouldn't worry.
01:53I understand.
01:54Since the pack has already voted,
01:57let her have the ritual.
01:59I knew you'd see reason.
02:01You've changed lately.
02:02You're not fighting everything the way you used to.
02:03Stubborn, overbearing,
02:05I scoffed inwardly.
02:07Ever since Leah arrived,
02:08every sacrifice I made for the pack
02:10was twisted into Alpha arrogance and suppressing Omega females.
02:14That night, I dragged my failing body back to our packhouse.
02:20Mother!
02:23Ella!
02:24Alice!
02:25You're back.
02:27Leah was lounging in my favorite armchair,
02:30draped in the silver fox plote I had gifted her,
02:33smiling like she owned the place.
02:35Ignoring the agonizing stabs in my chest,
02:38I walked into my private study
02:40and brought out an ancient carved wooden box.
02:42Leah.
02:44This is my grandmother's moon goddess amulet.
02:46I'm giving it to you.
02:48What?
02:49Sister!
02:50That's your most prized sacred relic!
02:53She was right.
02:54It was the heirloam of the silver moon bloodline.
02:58It's been passed down in my family for generations,
03:00but none of that mattered to me anymore.
03:03I'm also transferring my shares of Mother's moonstone mines to you.
03:06They're yours.
03:08Effective immediately.
03:09Sister!
03:10What are you talking about?
03:12Consider it an early mating gift.
03:15Shock flashed through Leah's eyes,
03:17but she quickly masked it with her usual innocent,
03:20clueless expression.
03:22I know everything.
03:23It's fine.
03:24You have my blessing.
03:26Cain walked into the room at that exact moment.
03:28He froze,
03:29looking tense when he saw us standing so close.
03:32What are you two talking about?
03:34Alice is giving me the moon goddess amulet,
03:36and her mind shares?
03:38Leah's eyes gleamed with cunning
03:39before filling with practiced tears.
03:43She's being far too generous.
03:45Alice, you...
03:45I'm exhausted.
03:47I'm going to bed.
03:51Ella, be a good girl and listen to Aunt Leah.
03:54Okay.
03:56Mama Leah, let's play another game.
03:59Mama Leah.
04:00The words felt like a silver blade
04:02plunging straight into my heart.
04:04I retreated to my bedroom and shut the door.
04:07Leaning against the wall,
04:08my legs finally gave out,
04:10and I collapsed to the floor.
04:11The silver poison was feasting on my life.
04:14Surrendering the purification ritual,
04:15meant accelerating my own rotting death.
04:17Slowly, I began to pack up my things.
04:19My rare pelts, bone adornments,
04:21the raw moonstones.
04:23Soon, they would all belong to Leah.
04:24Two days left.
04:26I stared at the ghostly pale face
04:27reflecting in my mirror.
04:30Alice, if this is the end,
04:32then let them remember you as a perfect alpha.
04:36When I stepped out of my room,
04:38Ella's laughter drifted in from the yard.
04:41She was curled up in Leah's lap,
04:43the two of them watching the moon marg glow
04:45in the early light.
04:47Mama Leah, it's so pretty!
04:51It is.
04:53Almost as pretty as our Ella.
05:01When Ella saw me,
05:02her heartbeat skimmed over me for a heartbeat
05:04before she looked away again,
05:05turning back to the moss
05:07as if I were nothing but a stranger passing through.
05:11Good morning, Ella.
05:14Morning.
05:15Mama Leah, can we go to the creek
05:17and look for silver-scale fish?
05:18Just a second, baby.
05:22Your mother might want to say something to you.
05:24I don't want to listen.
05:26Mother's always busy.
05:28She never plays with me.
05:31Something lodged hard in my throat.
05:34She wasn't wrong.
05:35For years, I had given everything to the pack.
05:38I had given her too little.
05:40Leah, on the other hand,
05:42always had time for her.
05:44It's okay.
05:45Go enjoy yourselves.
05:50I watched them run off hand in hand.
05:53The only thing that kept me upright
05:54was the tree beside me.
05:57Not just because agony was ripping through my body,
06:01because what was happening to my heart
06:02hurt even more.
06:04In the center of the territory,
06:06Cain was speaking in low voices
06:08with several pack members.
06:10The second they saw me coming,
06:12they broke apart and scattered.
06:14Cain glanced up at me.
06:16Without changing expression.
06:18You look awful.
06:19If you don't feel well, go lie down.
06:23I'm fine.
06:24I need to talk to you.
06:31About what?
06:32I slid the prepared contract across the table.
06:35I want to make some changes.
06:38Cain took one look at it.
06:40Alice, you're stepping down as Alpha?
06:42Yes.
06:43If something happens to me,
06:45I want Leah to inherit the position.
06:48What?
06:49If something happens to me,
06:51I want Leah to inherit the position.
06:54What?
06:54Cain's voice shook.
06:56His eyes dropped to the contract,
06:58then snapped back to me.
07:00You're giving her your grandmother's moon goddess amulet too?
07:02And your shares in the moonstone mine your mother left you?
07:05Alice, those are family holdings.
07:07They've been passed down for generations.
07:09She suits them better than I do.
07:11Call it my gift for your union.
07:14The air between us turned ice cold.
07:18Cain studied me carefully.
07:21Alice, what exactly are you trying to do?
07:24Nothing.
07:25I'm just tired.
07:26I want to move on.
07:27You knew?
07:29My parents can't even look me in the eye.
07:30The pack's been acting strange around me.
07:32You and Leah reek of each other,
07:33and my daughter calls her mama Leah.
07:35A bitter smile tugged at my lips.
07:37Cain, did you really think I didn't know?
07:41I don't blame either of you.
07:43This is on me too.
07:45I'm too controlling.
07:47Too hard.
07:48Too much of an Alpha for anyone's comfort.
07:50Leah is soft.
07:52Gentle.
07:53Easy to love.
07:54She never pushes back.
07:56She fits you better.
07:57And this pack too.
07:59Alice.
08:00This afternoon, I'll go to Elder Laurel.
08:03I'll sever our mate bond and formally hand the succession to Leah.
08:07She'll be this pack's next leader.
08:09Have you lost your mind?
08:11Do you have any idea what you're throwing away?
08:13You spent 15 years fighting for it.
08:17I haven't lost my mind.
08:21Maybe this way everyone gets what they want.
08:24That afternoon, the council convened.
08:27The news spread like wildfire.
08:30Alpha Alice had formally severed her bond with Beta Cain.
08:33She'd then presented her Omega sister to the pack's Elder Council and renounced her claim as Alpha.
08:39Alice, you can't be serious.
08:41I am.
08:42I pressed my ceremonial seal into the great Alpha Stone.
08:45My mark sank into the ancient granite, taking its place among the lineage of Silvermoon leaders.
08:51From this day forward, Leah's word on pack matters is law.
08:56A tremor of triumph ran through Leah, but she masked it beautifully, lowering her head in a show of perfect
09:03humility.
09:07Sister, I don't know what to say.
09:14You don't have to say anything.
09:16Just lead them well.
09:18It wasn't until we were on the path back to the pack house that she finally dropped the act.
09:24Alice, why are you really doing this?
09:28Because this is what you wanted, isn't it?
09:30My pack, my parents, my mate, even my own daughter.
09:34Leah, you've won.
09:36Sister, I just need one thing from you.
09:38Whatever this is between us, keep it away from Ella.
09:40She's just a child.
09:42Of course.
09:44You don't need to worry about her.
09:46I nodded once and said no more.
09:50I could have showed them the proof.
09:53I could have let the whole pack the snake she truly was.
09:56But if Leah was exiled or executed, Ella would lose two mothers in a single day.
10:03I would rather let her grow up loved by a lie than raised in the ruins of hatred and betrayal.
10:10That evening, I was packing up the last of my belongings when Elder Laurel entered my room.
10:15She was the old wolf who had watched me grow up.
10:18The only one who knew the entire truth.
10:20My child.
10:24Please burn them.
10:25Inside, the proof was undeniable.
10:27Leah's secret pact with the rogues.
10:29The plans for the silver attack that almost destroyed us.
10:32The faked prophecies she'd blasphemously claimed were from the moon goddess.
10:35And the letters, the ones that proved everything between her and Cain.
10:39But child, with this we could...
10:42Ella still needs a mother.
10:48Even if that mother isn't me.
10:51On the morning of my last day, I could barely move.
10:55The poison had seeped from my heart into every cell.
10:59A thousand tiny ants chewing away at me with every breath.
11:05I stared at my reflection in the mirror.
11:09Pale.
11:10Gaunt.
11:11The sharp, fiery light in my eyes had burned out.
11:15Leaving nothing but dull embers.
11:18Twenty-four hours left.
11:21Today was the day of Cain and Leah's mating ceremony.
11:25Leah was there, directing the other wolves.
11:28Alice.
11:29I turned.
11:30In my mother's hands was the moonstone crown,
11:33the ancestral relic meant to be passed down to me.
11:35I'm so proud of you, Alice.
11:37We are relieved, Alice.
11:38For years, you've led with force first and everything else second.
11:40Yeah, Leah brings calm where you bring pressure.
11:43Stepping aside may be this truly selfless thing you've done for this past.
11:45I turned and walked away before they could say another word.
11:49The ceremony began as the full moon rose,
11:51with the entire pack gathered around it.
11:53Their alpha showing up at the mating ceremony of her former mate,
11:56and the one he had chosen instead.
11:58You actually came.
11:59I said I would.
12:00Congratulations to both of you.
12:02Alice.
12:06Sister, thank you for coming.
12:08Thank you all for coming tonight to witness my mating ceremony with Leah.
12:11And most of all, I want to thank Alice for making this union possible,
12:14and for her blessing.
12:16I also want to thank my sister, Alice.
12:19She gave me everything.
12:20A family, her kindness, and now, her mate.
12:23I'm the luckiest she-wolf alive.
12:25I watched them cling to each other at the altar,
12:28and felt absolutely nothing but cold.
12:31Mother.
12:33Mama Leah sent me to tell you.
12:35It's time to exchange the mating tokens.
12:38Thank you for telling me.
12:39Mama Leah wants you to stay in the back.
12:41She said you'll ruin her special day.
12:44Ella.
12:47I want to tell you.
12:49I don't want to hear it!
12:50You ruin everything!
12:51Mama Leah gets sad because of you!
12:53I hate you!
12:54Mama!
12:55Mama Leah!
12:57Look at her.
12:58Even her own pups can't stand to breathe her air.
13:00Don't blame the kid.
13:01Alice brings the ice.
13:02Leah actually mothers her.
13:04I hate you.
13:05My flesh and blood.
13:06The pup I had carried for months.
13:08The pup I had nearly died to bring into this world.
13:10And she hated me.
13:12I stood in the middle of my own pack.
13:14Nothing but a ghost crashing a party.
13:16My mate.
13:17My daughter.
13:18My pack.
13:18They all belong to Leah now.
13:20I was the one who didn't belong.
13:21The moon goddess herself must be weeping at such a beautiful bond.
13:25Look how much Ella and the pack adore Leah.
13:27Your mother is right.
13:28The pack isn't blind, Alice.
13:29They chose Leah because she is simply better suited.
13:32In their eyes, I had never been right.
13:34I never would be.
13:36When the ceremony ended, I walked away.
13:40No one noticed.
13:41They were all too busy farnding over the happy couple.
13:45Back at my room, Elder Laurel was waiting for me.
13:49Do me a favor.
13:50Anything, Alpha.
13:52There are recordings in here.
13:55Tomorrow, when the moon rises, play it for the entire pack.
13:59Is this my last words?
14:02The pack deserves to hear them.
14:04This one is for my parents.
14:05And this one is for Ella.
14:08Give it to her when she comes of age.
14:11Child.
14:13One last thing.
14:14This is the true Alpha signet.
14:16The real symbol of our bloodline.
14:18Keep it safe for Ella.
14:19Tell her.
14:19Tell her mommy will always love her.
14:21With everything arranged, I slumped back in my chair.
14:23I had nothing left to give.
14:25In the distance, the pack howled into the night.
14:27Blessing Cain and Leah's union.
14:29When the sun rose, everything would shatter.
14:32Did night my pack.
14:33I hope you'll remember for the rest of your lives that I loved you all more than I should have.
14:37As the moon slipped below the horizon, Alice's heart beat its last.
14:42Elder Label sank to her knees, tears streaming down her face.
14:45She pressed a gentle kiss to Alice's cooling hand.
14:48At dawn, Elder Laurel stood alone at the altar.
14:51To the altar.
14:52Now.
14:52The Elder's voice echoed through the pack link, jarring every woof from their sleep.
14:59What is it, Elder?
15:00It's barely sunrise.
15:01Alpha Alice is dead.
15:03Impossible.
15:04She was at the ceremony last night.
15:05The silver poison claimed her.
15:07Our alpha died hours ago.
15:08What?
15:09This is no time for jokes.
15:10She was perfectly fine.
15:11Cain!
15:12She has been gone for hours.
15:14No.
15:15This has to be another one of her moves.
15:17Leah warned me she was faking her illness lately.
15:20Faking it, then perhaps you should see this.
15:25Silverleaf, a fatal dose.
15:27She's been taking this amount daily for the last three days.
15:31What?
15:31Just so none of you would see her suffer.
15:34She?
15:34Three days ago, the high priestess told her she had three days to live.
15:39The only chance of a purification ritual that could help was the one you gave to Leah.
15:47At that same moment, deep within the pack's territory, the Elder's voice broke into Alice's parents' minds.
15:55What?
15:56Alice surrendered her claim to the Moonstone Mines?
15:59Laurel, are you certain?
16:01Those are the richest mines in our territory!
16:03She signed the contract herself, just before the ceremony.
16:07She transferred all rights to Leah.
16:12Impossible!
16:13Alice loved her sister, but she would never give away her birthright.
16:17It's not just the mines.
16:18She abdicated her alpha title.
16:20She even returned the moon goddess amulet you gifted her.
16:24What?
16:25It is done.
16:26A legal contract.
16:28Sealed by a blood oath.
16:30What in the goddess name was that child thinking?
16:34She seemed so calm last night.
16:36This is wrong.
16:38Alice would never be this impulsive.
16:41Why give everything to Leah?
16:43It's not like her.
16:45Do you think seeing Cain and Leah mated, maybe it pushed her over the edge?
16:51Find her.
16:52I tried.
16:53The house is empty.
16:54She left alone after the ceremony.
16:56I was going to talk to her today.
16:58Tell her not to be too heartbroken.
17:00You have the gall to say that now?
17:02You were always praising Leah.
17:04Always calling Alice too aggressive, too strong.
17:06Well, here you are.
17:08Alice gave her everything.
17:09Are you satisfied now?
17:11How was I supposed to know she'd do this?
17:14I felt sorry for Leah, but Alice is my daughter.
17:17My own flesh and blood.
17:20What good is saying that now?
17:22We have to find her.
17:24They began a frantic search.
17:26They checked the border patrols, the council chambers, Alice's favorite sacred tree.
17:31The answer was the same everywhere.
17:35Goodbye.
17:36Don't say such things.
17:37It's the truth.
17:38She came by two days ago, marked every single weak point in our defenses and on the map.
17:43She gave specific instructions and she said she was going to the moon goddess.
17:50Alice, Alice, Alice, no.
17:51She gave everything to Leah.
17:53Could it be?
17:54Don't be ridiculous.
17:56Let's go to Cain's.
17:57She was just there last night, maybe.
17:59Cain rushed to Alice's room.
18:00The moment his fingers brushed against her ice-cold skin, he recoiled as if burned.
18:05I didn't know.
18:06Why didn't she say anything?
18:07And if she had, would you have given the chance of a purification ritual back?
18:12If I had known, I would have...
18:14Enough.
18:15She's dead.
18:16What's the point of this now?
18:19She chose silence.
18:21She always did.
18:22She was sick and still said nothing.
18:24Cain, the Alpha is gone and still you speak of her that way?
18:28It's just reality.
18:30She always had to be the strong one, always fighting, always in control.
18:33This is the price she paid.
18:35Leah, don't blame yourself.
18:36This has nothing to do with you.
18:39I don't want to hear it.
18:40Alice made her own choice.
18:42No one else is to blame.
18:43We need to arrange the funeral.
18:46Have her parents been notified?
18:47The Alpha's last wish was not to tell them.
18:49What?
18:50She said they looked happy last night.
18:52She didn't want to ruin their mood.
18:55Cain was silent for a moment.
18:56Fine.
18:57We'll tell them later.
18:59Leah, go get some rest.
19:01I'll handle this.
19:02Cain.
19:03I'm so scared.
19:07I'm here.
19:08I've got you.
19:12Cain.
19:13Over the last three days, the Alpha signed over all her assets to Leah.
19:17Her Alpha title, the Moonstone Mines, the Moon Goddess Amulet, everything.
19:23Good.
19:24It saves us a lot of trouble.
19:26I will see to the funeral arrangements.
19:32As no one wept for the Alpha, this was her final, tragic truth.
19:37On the path, Alice's mother reached for her daughter through the pack link.
19:41She was met with a wall of absolute silence.
19:44Still nothing.
19:45Alice would never ignore me.
19:46Stay calm.
19:50I'll link Cain.
19:51The reply came almost instantly.
19:53Charles?
19:55Cain, is Alice with you?
19:58We can't feel her.
19:59The Elder said she signed everything to Leah.
20:02We're worried she might have...
20:04A few seconds of static.
20:06Where are you now?
20:08On our way to your place.
20:10Cain, is she there?
20:12Is she alright?
20:13You should just come quickly.
20:16What happened?
20:17Did something happen to Alice?
20:19Answer me!
20:20You'll see when you get here.
20:22Just come.
20:23Move!
20:24Something's wrong!
20:25My daughter!
20:26Thirty minutes later, they skitted to a halt before Cain's place.
20:30No.
20:31It can't be.
20:33They stumbled inside.
20:34In the main hall, Leah sat in a chair, her eyes red and swollen.
20:38Cain stood by the window, his back to them.
20:41Alice.
20:42Where is my daughter?
20:46Charles.
20:47Linda.
20:48Where is she?
20:48Tell us.
20:49In here.
20:51Please accept my condolences.
20:54Condolences?
20:55What do you mean condolences?
20:58The door to the bedroom was open.
21:00Alice was lying peacefully on the bed.
21:03No!
21:04Alice!
21:05My baby!
21:07Wake up!
21:07Mom's here!
21:09Alice.
21:10How?
21:11You were fine last night?
21:13Oh!
21:14I was wrong.
21:15Everything I said, I was wrong.
21:17Please wake up and I'll make it right.
21:19I swear it.
21:19What happened?
21:20How could she just...
21:21It was the silver poison from the rogue attack.
21:23She passed this morning.
21:25Silver poison?
21:25Three days ago, the high priestess told her she had 72 hours to live without the purification ritual.
21:30But the chance was given to Leah.
21:33It wasn't like that.
21:33I was...
21:34I really was.
21:34I was so sick.
21:35These are the alpha's last words.
21:37Elder Laurel cut her off, holding out two sealed letters.
21:40The only sounds left were the rustle of parchment and the shattering of hearts.
21:44Cain's hands trembled as he read.
21:46The letter detailed everything.
21:49Devastating choices.
21:50The lonely thoughts that filled her last three days.
21:53My poor brave daughter.
21:54Elder Laurel stepped forward, holding a memory crystal.
21:57She infused it with moonlight.
21:59Cain, pack members, all of them.
22:01Giving the last purification chance to Leah without a moment's hesitation.
22:05Then, another memory played.
22:07The plan is working perfectly.
22:08Alice is almost dead.
22:09Soon, this pathetic pack will be ours.
22:11I've played the weak, helpless sister for so long.
22:13It's almost boring.
22:14These fools would believe anything I say.
22:15No, it's fake!
22:16It's all forged!
22:17No one moved.
22:18No one listened.
22:19She activated a communication stone.
22:20Their voices, Leah's and Darian's, filled the hall.
22:23Every recorded word a confession of treason.
22:25Then came the medical reports from the high priestess.
22:27Forged documents detailing Leah's fake silver poisoning.
22:30Followed by secret letters.
22:31Written in Leah's own hand.
22:33Plotting every step of the betrayal.
22:34And the final blow.
22:35Transaction logs.
22:36Proof that pack silver had been paid to the very rogues who murdered Alice.
22:39The truth crashed down the moon.
22:41An avalanche of deceit.
22:43You!
22:43You killed her!
22:45Killed her!
22:45Daddy?
22:46A small voice made everyone freeze.
22:49What's happening?
22:50Why are you on the floor?
22:51No one answered her.
22:52Where's Mother?
22:53Where did she go this time?
22:55Ella.
22:55She's not here again?
22:57Mama Leah, can we go play by the creek?
22:58Little one.
22:59Your mother.
23:00She's gone to be with the moon goddess.
23:02Oh.
23:02When is she coming back?
23:03She isn't, sweetie.
23:04I was always mean to Mama Leah anyway.
23:06Ella.
23:07Mama Leah, can we go now?
23:08But Leah was already being hauled to her feet by the pack guards.
23:10Mommy Leah?
23:11Where are you?
23:12Don't go!
23:13Mama Leah!
23:13She completely ignored the mother who would never wake again.
23:16Why are they taking her?
23:17Did Mother do this?
23:18She always wants Mama Leah gone.
23:19No, Ella, that's not it.
23:20Yes, it is!
23:21I hate her!
23:22I hate Mother!
23:23Even now, with Alice gone from this world, these were the words her own daughter screamed.
23:28Alice had known this would happen.
23:30With her own life, she had carved an eternal wound into all of them.
23:34And the most tragic part of it all, her five-year-old daughter was screaming for her betrayer,
23:40with no idea she had just lost a mother who loved her more than life itself.
23:44With Leah gone, the silence in the silver moon pack was a physical weight, suffocating.
23:52Cain, the death tenders are here.
23:54No!
23:55Don't take her!
23:56But he knew it was useless.
23:58Alice was gone.
23:59Outside, every document was another twist of the knife in their hearts.
24:02Just ate.
24:03Her finger trembling on a healer's log.
24:05It was for Alice's birthday.
24:06She told us she was wounded in a...
24:07We never thought to ask again.
24:09That was the day Leah claimed a sudden illness.
24:11You were both attending to her.
24:12The alpha didn't want to burden you.
24:15What have we got us?
24:17What have we done?
24:20Alice changed her will three days.
24:22If Leah was ever found guilty over, the will would be voided.
24:24But what?
24:24All assets would be automatically transferred to the pack's orphaned pup fund.
24:28Cain stared, the gears turning in his shattered mind.
24:30For pups who have lost their parents, Leah would get nothing.
24:33She had known.
24:34Alice had foreseen all of it.
24:35She had used her own death to spring one final, inescapable trap.
24:39There is also this, for Ella, to be opened when she comes of age.
24:42And a trust, tied to the Moonstone Mine, that she cannot access until then.
24:46Mama Leah!
24:47I want my Mama Leah!
24:48The five-year-old pup was still grieving for her mother's betrayer.
24:52The truth spread through the pack link like a sickness.
24:55The official report from the Silver Moon Packs investigators confirmed their worst fears.
24:59Alice had willingly ingested an overdose of silver leaf.
25:02It wasn't a tragedy.
25:03It was a weapon.
25:03A calculated final act of revenge.
25:05She hadn't just colluded with rogues.
25:07She had secretly recorded her family's every unfair accusation against Alice.
25:10A venomous snake in our midst.
25:12She's been planning this since she was a pup.
25:13The funeral was held three days later.
25:15Delegations from every ally's pack arrived to pay their respects.
25:18They didn't just mourn an alpha.
25:19They mourned the leader who had held their borders for 15 years.
25:22The wolf who walked into her own death with her head held high.
25:25Cain stood before her remains in a black cloak.
25:27When is Mama Leah coming back?
25:29Ella, this is for your mom.
25:31She's...
25:32I know, but I want Mama Leah!
25:33A ripple of shared pain and pity moved through the crowd.
25:36The child, Leah's poison had seeped deep into her heart.
25:39My daughter!
25:40I was wrong!
25:41I'm so sorry!
25:42I'm so sorry!
25:44I'm so sorry!
25:44No amount of tears could fill back a soul already given to the moon.
25:47After the ceremony, Elder Laurel ended Alice's last wish.
25:50Her ashes were low to rest on a hill that faced the city moon.
25:53Her gravestone was simple, hatched with only a few powerful words.
25:57A month passed.
25:58Every morning, Cain made the pilgrimage to Alice's grave.
26:01Daddy, why do we always have to come here?
26:04Because the person who loved you most is resting here.
26:06But she never played with me.
26:08Mama Leah said the people who really love you always stay with you.
26:12The words were a fresh wound.
26:13How could he explain to a five-year-old that the wolf who stayed was a monster?
26:16Leah's sentence was exile.
26:18At her trial, she tried to claim Alice had framed her.
26:21Alice's parents sold everything they owned and moved to the far south.
26:24They couldn't bear to stay where every shadow held a memory of the daughter they had failed.
26:29Before they left, her mother stood before the grave, pressing her forehead to the cold stone.
26:33I promise, I will only love you.
26:35Only you.
26:36The moonstone mind shares were distributed according to Alice's will, a portion for every member of the pack.
26:41During the ceremony, one piece of moonstone was set aside.
26:44It was one Alice had carved herself.
26:46Five years passed.
26:47Ella, now ten.
26:48Daddy, why don't I remember Mama?
26:51Your mother, she was a very busy alpha, sweetheart.
26:54Oh, then why is she always smiling at me?
26:57Because she loved you more than anything.
26:59But Mama Leah said...
27:00That night, Ella dreamed of a she-wolf with a kind face.
27:05The wolf whispered in her ear...
27:06Mommy loves you.
27:08Always.
27:11She woke to a tear-soaked pillow.
27:14On the day she came of age, the pack elder gave her the letter.
27:17It spoke of the overwhelming joy Alice felt the moment Ella was born.
27:20Of the fierce pride she had hearing her daughter's first tiny howl.
27:24Of a hundred small warm moments that Leah's poison had stolen from her memory.
27:28The last lines shattered her.
27:29My dearest Ella, by the time you read this, I will be long gone.
27:33I don't know if you will remember me.
27:36Or if you will hate me.
27:38But I need you to know that there was never a moment I didn't love you.
27:42Everything I did, I did to give you a better life.
27:44Forgive me for being selfish enough to leave you this way.
27:47If there had been any other choice, I would have burned the world down to watch you grow up.
27:51Love.
27:52Your mummy.
27:53Ella cried until the sun rose.
27:55The next day, she went to the grave.
27:57I'm sorry, mummy.
27:57I'm so, so sorry.
27:59But some words come too late.
28:00And some love is only understood once it is lost forever.
28:03In the end, everyone got what they wanted.
28:05The pack got the perfect obedient alpha they they craved.
28:07And Annalie got her peace.
28:09The only cost was her life.
28:10Two decades had passed.
28:13At 25, she was the youngest alpha in the pack's long history.
28:17And the moonfall ceremony is about to begin.
28:19It was the most sacred ritual of the year, honoring the ancestors who had bled for their land.
28:25They say you are just like her.
28:27Your mother.
28:28Do you believe that to be true?
28:30I can never be her.
28:32Why?
28:32Because in 29 years, she taught this pack the meaning of sacrifice.
28:37And it took me 18 years just to learn the meaning of regret.
28:40After the ceremony, Ella walked alone to the gravesite on the hill.
28:43It was the anniversary.
28:45She came every year.
28:46The grave was already blanketed in moonflowers from Cain, from the pack, and from strangers.
28:50Over the years, the orphaned pot fund Alice established had saved countless lives.
28:55Hey, mum.
28:57I'm back.
28:58The pack is strong.
28:59You would be proud.
29:00We're an example for the other territories now, just like you wanted.
29:03Father, he never took another mate.
29:05He says his one great betrayal was enough for a lifetime.
29:08He won't dishonor your memory with another.
29:10Grandma and grandpa passed away in the south.
29:12Their last message was for you.
29:13That they always loved you.
29:15They just understood too late.
29:16And Leah, Ella's voice dropped.
29:18Her mind finally shattered under the weight of her own venom.
29:21That is her penance.
29:22The hillside was silent.
29:23A sanctuary of memory.
29:25Mum, my biggest regret.
29:26It's still those words.
29:27I hate you.
29:29I've spent 20 years trying to take them back.
29:30Every time I see your face in my memory, that last look, I would tear the world apart to go
29:34back to that moment.
29:34Elder Laurel said you tried to mind-link me at the end.
29:36What were you trying to say?
29:37Was it, I love you, or be a good pup?
29:39I'll never know.
29:40She pulled a small silver locket from under her tunic.
29:42Inside, protected by glass.
29:43It's the most precious thing I own.
29:45She stared at it, lost in the endless maze of what-ifs.
29:48What if she hadn't listened?
29:49What if she had seen the truth in her mother's eyes?
29:51What if she had just said, I love you too?
29:53Far below, Cain's silhouette appeared at the bottom of the hill.
29:56She's been up there a long time.
29:57Let her.
29:58He dreamt.
29:58This is her time with Alice.
30:00You are not going up?
30:01No.
30:01I don't have the right to stand before her grave, her.
30:03Every night he dreamed of Alice, dreamed that she was alive, and every morning he woke up
30:07to the same unforgiving truth.
30:09Do I know you?
30:10My name is Moon Shadow, from the Northern Pack.
30:12Ten years ago, the Silver Moon Pup Fund saved me after my parents were killed.
30:16Your pack raised me.
30:16I came to thank your mother.
30:17She's always listening.
30:19Alpha Alice, thank you.
30:20Because of you I'm alive.
30:21Because of you I will watch my own pups grow.
30:23Ella had seen it so many times.
30:25Every wolf saved by the fund knew her mother's name.
30:27Her mother's death hadn't just purchased their regret.
30:30It had purchased a future for generations.
30:32Mom, you once asked if we would remember you.
30:34The answer is yes.
30:35Every single day.
30:37For the rest of our lives.
30:38Ella unfolded the letters.
30:39The ones her mother had left her.
30:41My darling Ella, you called Leah Mama again today.
30:44It broke my heart, but I don't blame you.
30:46You are too small to know the truth from a lie.
30:48I never blamed you.
30:49Not for a single second.
30:51Because loving you was the greatest happiness of my life.
30:53On the back of the final page, a few words were scrawled in a rushed, shaky hand.
30:58If there is a next life, I still want to be your mother.
31:00Below the hill, the silver moon pack thrived.
31:03Life went on.
31:04But in the heart of every wolf, there remained a permanent hollow space.
31:07A space named Alice.
31:08Moonlight bathed to the headstone.
31:10A silver, silent benediction.
31:12Perhaps she was saying,
31:13I forgive you.
31:14I will always love you.
31:15Because love had never left at all.
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