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Silver Scream Blood Of The Silver Bond
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00:00I'm Selene, Onalai daughter of the High Alpha, Pride of the Silver Crest Pack, and I have
00:05a secret.
00:06Since my first shift, I can hear the memories locked inside our sacred silver relics.
00:11There is grease 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 packhouse preparing for our lunar
00:43ceremony.
00:44We were the perfect pair.
00:45Border War hero.
00:47Handsome.
00:47Always 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.
01:08The 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.
01:15Wolves racing through moonlit forests, every line precise and sacred.
01:19This was the symbol of our union.
01:21The 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!
01:30It'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.
01:53Wide-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, that the heat hides their sense.
02:21She's crying.
02:22Apologizing to you.
02:23But Silomus keeps telling her to be louder.
02:25He said you know nothing.
02:27That you're just like this vessel.
02:28Prestigious on the outside.
02:29Hollow on the inside.
02:31Waiting 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.
03:04Inside the very gift meant to bless our bond.
03:07I didn't need to guess who she was.
03:09Liana.
03:09His fragile childhood friend.
03:12The Omega who always dropped her eyes when I passed.
03:14Whatever 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.
03:56It was time to light the fire.
03:57I turned to the forge master who was watching me nervously.
04:00Is 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.
04:30To 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?
04:38Master Barret?
04:39Are you questioning my devotion to my own mate?
04:42Never, my lady.
04:44Never.
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. 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!
05:43Seal the forge!
05:44Now!
05:50Burn them!
05:51Burn them!
05:52Burn them!
05:52Burn them!
05:52I want to feel them sizzle into charred bone inside me!
05:56Let us be bound together.
05:59Forever.
06:00Ever.
06:02Stop!
06:04Stop! Everyone stop this instant!
06:08My lady, you cannot...
06:11You absolutely cannot do this!
06:14Elder Malecon, 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.
06:23Your 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.
06:31Or worse, it fit 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 of it, the conquences of that union are already set in motion.
06:42My lady, the Elder is right!
06:44Please, 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.
07:03If the sacred silver were already filled with something filthy, should I wait for your blessing and let that rot
07:09bleed 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 he'd known since
07:28birth.
07:28He 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 themselves
07:38stepped back.
07:39My lady, if the silver is truly tainted, then the fire is the only way.
07:46He stepped back, white robes rippling in the rising heat, head bowed in submission.
07:52The smiths saw their last shield for tradition disappear.
07:55They didn't hesitate. They heaved the final stones into place and sealed the great forge's mouth with thick, wet clay.
08:02Darkness that could only end one way.
08:05Inside, the echo gave one last sound, a low, chilling giggle.
08:09They'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.
08:18The torch was heavy, its tips soaked in oils that smelled of pine resin and ancient magic.
08:22I 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 could steal
08:31the alpha crown.
08:32I stepped forward. The heat was already bleeding through the stone walls.
08:35My hand was perfectly steady as I lowered the flame to the ignition vent at the base of the forge.
08:39For the glory of the silver crest pack.
08:42My voice rang out clean and clear for every smith and elder present.
08:46May this fire refine our future and consume every shadow that dares to linger in the dark.
08:52The 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.
09:00Then the roar began. The great forge bellowed as heat surged upward, wrapping around the totem like something hungry.
09:05The echo screamed one final time. Pure, ecstatic agony.
09:09It's hot! It's so wonderfully hot! I can feel them melting into me!
09:15Sacred silver doesn't smelt fast.
09:17Three days. Three nights. Unrelenting heat.
09:20I didn't leave. I had a chair brought to the forge floor and I sat there, silent, draped in fur,
09:24watching every shift of every smith.
09:26By the second day, word had spread through the pack.
09:29Lead warrior Silas had gone missing just before the ceremony. Panic rippled through the ranks.
09:33I played the grieving, frantic mate without a single missed beat.
09:37When 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.
09:46I felt a dark omen, father. I had to start the forge early, to pray for him, to protect him
09:50through the holy fire.
09:51My father sat beside me for over an hour, moved by my devotion.
09:54He had no idea the man he was searching for was currently becoming ash and slag inside the fire we
10:00were watching together.
10:01Liana's disappearance was noted too, but she was an Omega.
10:04Her flight was dismissed as cowardice. No one looked twice.
10:07On the third night, the roar of the forge softened to a low, melodic hum. The silver was ready.
10:16Selina!
10:18Put that down. Put it down right now, Selene.
10:22What in the ancestor's name are you doing?
10:25You've left the pack house. You've overrode in the ceremony calendar.
10:28You've threatened the forge master and sent Elder Malazza into a cold sweat.
10:32This is your binding ceremony, and you're standing here with a torch like some-
10:35Mother!
10:36I know what I'm doing.
10:38Do you?
10:39Because from where I'm standing, you look like a girl throwing a tantrum the night before the most important moment
10:43of her life.
10:44Selene, did you and Silas argue? Is that what this is? That's normal.
10:49Every mated pair has friction before the ceremony. You have to be patient. Gracious.
10:54You're about to become his lunatic. Gracious.
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.
11:17Something that has been rubbing itself all over the symbol of my future bond.
11:22If I leave it, if I wait for the blessed hour and let the holy fire seal that filth into
11:27our union, what does that make me?
11:34What... what exactly are you-
11:36I 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 moment she said nothing.
11:55Selene, 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. And make sure
12:13it doesn't embarrass this family.
12:15She didn't look at the forge again.
12:16Return to the pack house.
12:19The last soft thing in my chest went with her.
12:22Good.
12:22I turned back to the forge.
12:29There was nothing left in my way. No elder, no forge master, no mother. Just me, the torch, and the
12:34sealed mouth of the great forge.
12:36The totem's echo had gone quiet, not frightened, waiting, coiled and ready, the way a wolf waits before a strike.
12:42I walked to the ignition vent. The heat rolled off the stone in waves.
12:45Just do it, my wolf said. Burn the lie. All of it.
12:52I raised the torch. I threw the torch. It caught instantly.
12:55A crack of sound. Then the low whomp of fuel igniting deep in the stone belly of the forge.
13:00Then 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.
13:10Inside, the totem sent me one last burst of feeling. Not words. Just pure ecstatic relief.
13:15Like something finally, finally clean.
13:17Add fuel. Continually. Maximum heat.
13:22Seven days and seven nights.
13:25Don't let it drop. Not once.
13:28I 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.
13:40I 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.
13:45By the second day, the disappearances had reached every corner of the territory.
13:49Lead warrior Silas, gone.
13:51Vanished the mourning of his own binding ceremony. Not a trace.
13:54Liana, 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.
14:05They'd run away together. Couldn't bear to be separated.
14:08Silas' family turned the territory upside down. Search parties.
14:11Desperate favors called in. Nothing.
14:16When my father, the High Alpha, rode out to the forge on the third day,
14:20I met him with red-rimmed eyes and a trembling lower lip.
14:22He told me he wanted our bond to be the strongest in our Pax history.
14:27I felt something wrong in the stars, father.
14:30I had to start the fire. I had to pray for him.
14:33My father put his arm around me and stayed for an hour.
14:36He had no idea the man he was searching for was forty feet away,
14:38becoming slag inside the silver we were watching together.
14:41On the seventh night, the roar faded to a low, even hum.
14:44I stood up.
14:44Open it!
14:47Barret ordered cold water, poured over the forge walls.
14:50Steam screamed upward in great white columns.
14:52Bricks cracked and popped in the sudden chill.
14:54When the smiths began pulling the sealed stones away,
14:57every person on that yard held their breath.
14:58The outer bricks came down, then the inner layer, then the clay.
15:02A smell rolled out.
15:03Something between hot earth, metal, and something else.
15:05Something no one commented on.
15:07Two of the most experienced smiths went in.
15:08They came back out, carrying a platform between them.
15:11And on it, the binding totem.
15:12Intacked.
15:13It hadn't cracked.
15:14Hadn't warped.
15:15It had survived seven days of white-hot, continuous heat,
15:18without a single fracture.
15:19But it was transformed.
15:20The raw silver-gray of the unfired metal was gone entirely.
15:24In its place, a deep, saturated crimson, rich as old blood, warm as a dying ember.
15:29The glaze was perfect.
15:30Mirror smooth.
15:31The carved wolves on its surface caught the morning light
15:34and threw it back in long, shimmering streaks.
15:36It was, without question, the most beautiful thing anyone in that yard had ever seen.
15:40The ancestors blessed it.
15:42One of them whispered.
15:43They blessed it, after all.
15:45I walked toward it slowly.
15:46I stopped two feet away.
15:48I looked at it for a long moment.
15:49Are they still in there?
15:50A warmth pressed back against my mind.
15:53Quiet and settled.
15:54Content.
15:54Yes, good.
15:58Silas's father, the old warrior lord, with three of his sons.
16:01Liana's mother, with her brother, both clutching each other.
16:04The territory sheriff trailing behind them, face pale and professionally blank.
16:08They'd heard the forge had opened.
16:09They'd come on the chance that someone here had seen something.
16:11When they spotted me standing next to the totem, her eyes had dropped to the base of the totem.
16:15She went still.
16:18Her voice came out strange.
16:20She stepped closer.
16:21Her hand went to her mouth.
16:23That's Liana's moonstone.
16:25She never took it off.
16:28I gave it to her the day she presented me.
16:36Silas's father moved to the other side.
16:38His 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 pack fighter carried as their mark.
16:48Then 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.
17:06Not to the great hall.
17:07Not in front of the elders.
17:08To his private study.
17:09He was seated when I arrived.
17:10He looked at me for a very long time without speaking.
17:14Savine.
17:17Do you admit fault?
17:21I admit I chose the wrong mate.
17:23I nearly brought shame onto this bloodline.
17:26And?
17:28I admit I didn't act sooner.
17:31That's all you admit?
17:33Yes.
17:40You have more spine than both your brothers combined.
17:44He rose from his chair and walked to me.
17:46He put his hand on my shoulder and lifted me to my feet.
17:49Something I hadn't expected.
17:50Here is what happened.
17:52Silas and the Omega Liana fled the pack together.
17:54Unable 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.
18:13Slow and long.
18:14Like a man setting down something very heavy.
18:24The Ember Throne arrived at my quarters.
18:26It took six wolves to carry it.
18:27They set it at the far end of my main hall.
18:30The first thing you saw when you walked in.
18:31The last thing you saw when you left.
18:33It was still that deep saturated crimson.
18:36Still mirror smooth.
18:37Still beautiful.
18:38I stood in front of it for a long time after the carriers had gone.
18:42I waited for the echo.
18:43There was nothing.
18:45I reached out.
18:46My fingers stopped an inch from the surface.
18:48And I realized I didn't want to touch it.
18:50I lowered my hand.
18:51I stood back and looked at what I'd made.
18:53Every relic in my room.
18:54The mirror.
18:55The lyre.
18:55The blade on the wall.
18:56Not out of fear.
18:57Not out of grief.
18:58I just didn't need to.
19:00Stayed silent.
19:01They 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.
19:08Gone.
19:08My world had never been so still.
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