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00:00That was the 60-second marking ceremony between Ben and me.
00:07That was supposed to be the 60-second marking ceremony between Ben and me.
00:14As always, I knelt alone in the center of the moonlight forest,
00:18waiting for the full moon to rise.
00:21And, as always, Ben didn't show up.
00:24Seven years together, and he had refused to mark me for the 60-second time.
00:30That day, before I was a bloody mess,
00:33I knelt here alone, taking the hit from a bond that wouldn't lock.
00:37Eventually, I had to reach out through our weak psychic link.
00:42Ben, did you forget tonight is our marking ceremony?
00:46Sorry. It's Chloe's name-day feast tonight.
00:48We're out celebrating. I don't think I'll make it back by moonrise.
00:52Susan, I swear. Next full moon will seal the bond.
00:56Daddy, do I look good tonight?
01:01Perfect.
01:04Here, Daddy. My new balm.
01:08It's rose smelt. Do you like it?
01:11Very good.
01:13The perfume smells good.
01:16Or do I?
01:17That claying rose stink mixed with the reach of blood hit me.
01:20My legs went weak.
01:23Ben, please. Save me. Mark me.
01:27I told you, Susan. Wait for the next time. Be good.
01:32I'm busy spoiling my little girl.
01:37No. I can't wait any longer.
01:41Can't wait.
01:43Daddy, focus. Take it easy.
01:46She'll wait. She always does.
01:49You've waited for me 61 times, Susan.
01:52One more night won't kill you.
01:53Oh, Daddy.
01:55It was already the 62nd time in seven years that he'd cancelled on me because of Chloe.
02:00Because of his adopted daughter.
02:03Just last night, I'd reminded him again.
02:07Ben, tomorrow is the day of our bonding ceremony.
02:10I won't forget.
02:12Ben, they're waiting for us in the hall.
02:27Told you.
02:28She's just a lowly Omega.
02:30A plaything.
02:31Why would an Alpha ever mark her?
02:33Alpha Ben probably forgot she was still waiting.
02:35That was the final straw.
02:37But I was never some lame Omega.
02:40I'm the Frostbale Alpha's daughter.
02:42The noblest wolf blood runs in my veins.
02:45And nobody gets to step on me again.
02:48I turned and walked away.
02:53Only to be ambushed by rogue wolves in the dark.
02:56I tried to contact Ben for help.
03:00Ben, help me.
03:03He didn't answer.
03:04Ben, give me the first blessing.
03:14So I fought alone, with everything I had.
03:23I lived.
03:28Mom, I want to come home.
03:31My dear girl, you finally made your decision.
03:35Your father has been waiting all these years.
03:39He never gave the Alpha seed to anyone else.
03:43And Rocco, he's the Alpha of the Crimson Moon pack now.
03:47He's still waiting for you.
03:49If he still wants me, I'll marry him.
03:51But isn't Ben LaVon Bari the one you've always loved?
03:56No.
03:57Not anymore.
03:58But before I go home, I've got to go back one last time.
04:02I'm taking back what's mine.
04:04Ending this bond that should have died long ago.
04:07I wasn't going to beg Ben to mark me anymore.
04:11He could stay with his precious adopted daughter.
04:15Back at the Fireflame Castle.
04:18I heard laughter coming from the front hall.
04:28When I returned home, the first thing I heard was laughter in the living room.
04:38When I returned home, the first thing I heard was laughter in the living room.
04:42Chloe, I made this wolf fang necklace just for you.
04:47I even had the shaman bless it.
04:50So you'll never get sick again.
04:52Woo!
04:53Woo!
04:54Thank you, Daddy.
04:55You're the best!
04:56Of course.
04:57You're the most important person to me.
05:00Watching them, I felt...
05:02sick.
05:05Susan!
05:06You're back!
05:07Are you here to celebrate my birthday, too?
05:09And then the scent hit me.
05:12Roses.
05:13Thick.
05:14And nauseating.
05:15I'm allergic to strong florals.
05:17I stepped back immediately.
05:18Don't come closer!
05:19But Chloe ignored me and lunged toward me with open arms.
05:23No!
05:24Ouch!
05:35Susan!
05:36Why did you push me?
05:39Chloe!
05:44I swear, I didn't use any strength!
05:50Susan, how could you?
05:55Just because we didn't finish the marking ritual doesn't mean you get to hurt Chloe.
06:02Ben's knee pressed directly on the wound just torn, torn open by that stray wolf's claw.
06:08Tomorrow, he was tearing it open again, piece by piece.
06:12But I forced myself to stay conscious, to stay awake, because if I fell now, it meant surrender.
06:25Apologize, Susan.
06:27You hurt Chloe.
06:29You need to be held accountable for your recklessness.
06:32She's fine.
06:33I mean, she fell on her own.
06:47All because of that lousy rose bomb.
06:51You know, the smell makes me sick.
06:54What, you forgot that too?
06:56You still shouldn't have been violent with her.
06:59Chloe only wanted to hug you.
07:00You pushed her.
07:01It's okay, Daddy.
07:04It doesn't hurt that much.
07:06I'll call the healer.
07:13You apologize.
07:20Chloe leaned into Ben's chest, pretending to be weak, but I caught it.
07:26That flicker of victory in her eyes.
07:31I'm sorry.
07:35There, don't cry.
07:37The pain overtaking every inch of my body.
07:40My mind began to float.
07:43My thoughts scattering.
07:50Why are you bleeding so much?
08:01Trying to guilt-ripe me now, what?
08:03Think bleeding out in front of me will win my sympathy?
08:07Even if you die here, Susan, don't expect pity from me.
08:11He walked away.
08:13Without sparing me a single glance.
08:16But that was fine.
08:17I no longer needed his pity.
08:19Because very soon, I would be gone.
08:22I stayed in bed for two whole days.
08:25Ben never came by.
08:26Not even once.
08:27And I knew exactly where he was.
08:31With her.
08:32Just like all the other times.
08:35I stared at the family portrait I once cherished.
08:39The one I now despised.
08:42In the painting, Chloe's smile is always the brightest.
08:46And Ben never once looked my way.
08:49Enough.
08:53I began to pack.
08:55All the thing the things I once held dear.
08:57Gifts from Ben.
08:58Necklaces.
08:59Handwritten notes.
09:00I tossed them into the fireplace.
09:08What the hell are you doing?
09:10Susan.
09:11You think this kind of drama is going to get my attention?
09:15It's not about you.
09:17I just wanted those memories to die with a little dignity.
09:21Stop playing these little games.
09:23You know I'm not moved by this.
09:25You'd better behave or else...
09:27Or else you'll abandon me.
09:31You already did, Ben.
09:33You just won't admit it.
09:43Still acting out?
09:44How fine.
09:45Let's talk like adults.
09:47Tonight, you'll have dinner with me and Chloe.
09:51You're practically her mother.
09:53Show some maturity and fix your relationship with...
09:56Ben.
09:57I'm only two years older than Chloe.
10:00And you want me to be her mother?
10:03Don't you think that's a little twisted?
10:06She lost her parents young.
10:08I've raised her since then.
10:10She's never known hardship and I won't let her start now.
10:20But I had never known hardship either.
10:23Until I fell in love with him.
10:26That night at dinner, Chloe beamed like nothing had ever happened.
10:30Ben, perhaps trying to maintain some sense of fairness, placed a piece of food in my bowl.
10:35Lemon-baked bass.
10:38Chloe's favorite.
10:40My most hated.
10:44The whole meal felt like a silent joke.
10:47Where the only warmth came from their intimacy.
10:50And the only thing growing in me was the cold, final resolve.
11:01Daddy, take me to see the show, please.
11:07Of course.
11:11Susan, get some rest.
11:17I won't forget the next marking ceremony.
11:20This time, I'll plan it myself.
11:21I promise, there'll be a big surprise.
11:26Alright, I'll wait.
11:28I didn't go back to my room.
11:31Instead, I picked up my dagger.
11:33Wrapped myself in my cloak.
11:35And walked deep into the forest.
11:41I knelt before the moonstone altaral.
11:45Pierced my finger.
11:46Blood dripped into the rune-carved stone throth.
11:49Then, I whispered the severant meat.
11:52By the name of Frostbailed.
11:54I break the soul chain.
11:57In the next instant, a searing pain erupted in my chest.
12:01Like claws diggings gigging into my core.
12:04And Corrin tearing a piece of my soul free.
12:07The bond that had barely kept me tied to Ben.
12:10Shattered.
12:10The psychic backlash hit me like a tidal wave.
12:13I collapsed forward.
12:15Nearly unconscious from the sheer agony.
12:17But I didn't turn back.
12:19Because this pain.
12:20Was my freedom.
12:35I ran towards the Frostbanged pack.
12:39Home.
12:42This wasn't ordinary pain.
12:45This was the backlash from a severed mate-bind.
12:49Instinctively, he reached out through the psychic link.
12:53Susan, where are you?
12:56Can you hear me?
12:57Are you hurt?
12:59Say something.
13:00But there was only silence.
13:02A cold, endless void.
13:05The bond, the sole thread that had always connected them, was gone.
13:09No.
13:10No, that's impossible.
13:13Ben, where are you going?
13:15The show's not over yet.
13:16Watch it yourself.
13:17I have something to do.
13:18Ben!
13:25She didn't really sever it.
13:27She couldn't have.
13:29For seven years, I had waited for him.
13:32Even after he rejected me, marking over and over again, I had never left.
13:36I was always there.
13:38Quiet.
13:39Constant.
13:40Holding his world together from the shadows.
13:43I was like a guardian wolf.
13:44Always watching.
13:46Always protecting.
13:47Even when ignored.
13:51Susan!
13:53The house was cold.
13:55Not just in temperature, but lifeless.
13:57Like someone had died here.
13:59The ceramic vase I loved.
14:01Shattered.
14:02The shelf by the sofa.
14:04Empty.
14:05No more of my old scrolls.
14:07Or wolf lore books.
14:08The house was stripped clean.
14:10As if I had never lived here at all.
14:13He'd tried to be fair.
14:14So he'd given me a piece of Chloe's favorite lemon-baked bass.
14:18I hated the fishy taste of bass.
14:21I told him it gave me headaches.
14:23I had been his Luna.
14:25His fated mate.
14:26The one he had sworn to spend his life with.
14:29And yet, he had never room for me.
14:32Susan.
14:35You didn't really leave me.
14:38Right?
14:40But deep down, he knew I had.
14:43By the time I stepped onto the ridges of Frostflang Mountain, the sky had just begun to pale with the
14:48first light of dawn.
14:49The wind greeted me with the familiar scent of snow cedar and stone-cold earth.
14:54Sharp, clean, and ancient.
14:57This was the scent of my bloodline.
15:03What?
15:04She's back!
15:05Lady Susan has returned!
15:07No!
15:19You're really back!
15:21My baby girl, you're home!
15:31And for the first time since leaving Ben, I cried.
15:36Not from pain, but because someone finally cared about me.
15:42Not for what I did, but for simply being me.
15:46You've suffered long enough.
15:47The Alpha Seat has always been waiting for you.
15:50From now on, you'll never stand alone again.
15:53Standing between them, wrapped in unconditional love,
15:56I felt like the barren plain Aen inside my heart had finally thawed,
15:59like the first rain after years of Frost.
16:03Another day later, and she would have permanently destabilized her Alpha Core.
16:11It's alright.
16:12I'm back now.
16:14I won't fall again.
16:18That night, the Frostick Pack lit a ceremonial bonfire
16:23to welcome their true heir home.
16:27Laughter and warmth surrounded me.
16:30And for the first time in so long,
16:33I didn't feel alone.
16:38Big Sister Susan, will you stay here forever?
16:42Yes.
16:44I will.
16:46Yay!
16:48Yay!
16:57In my palms sat a single black Osterian bead,
17:01the only thing I'd brought with me from Ben.
17:03It had once hung from a necklace he gave me.
17:06Now nothing more than a burnt relic.
17:10I dropped it gently into the dying embers at my feet.
17:14The bead cracked.
17:18Leaving the fire at Pack behind.
17:21Felt like breathing clean air after drowning.
17:25Don't catch a cold.
17:31Coming home
17:35Felt better than anything I'd remembered.
17:39Today,
17:40I was meeting Rocco, Alpha of the Crimson Moon Pack.
17:45A promise made long ago,
17:48when I was ten years old,
17:49was finally coming due.
17:51Back then,
17:52our two packs had formed an alliance,
17:54sealed with a sacred pact,
17:56the heir of Frostbade would one day become the mate
17:59of Crimson Moon's warrior Alpha,
18:01a union of strength and blood,
18:03to safeguard the northern ligonage of the wolf tribes.
18:08I remembered he once gave me a polished moonstone
18:11etched with the rune for Luna.
18:16One day,
18:17I'll come find you.
18:19But I had veered off the path of destiny,
18:22lost myself for seven years.
18:27And yet,
18:29he had waited.
18:35He really waited.
18:47You're finally back.
18:55Rocky,
18:57there's something I can't hide from you.
19:00What is it?
19:02I took a breath
19:04and told him everything.
19:06About Ben.
19:08About the obsession.
19:09The patience.
19:10The 62 humiliating rejections.
19:13About how I severed the mate bond with my own hands.
19:17How I ran,
19:18broken,
19:19and alone
19:20from a place that had never been home.
19:23He listened without a word.
19:26Not once did he look away.
19:28There was no judgment.
19:30No surprise.
19:32No hesitation.
19:34Only a quiet, aching sorrow in his gaze.
19:38So now you know.
19:41I'm not the pure Luna everyone imagined.
19:44I'm not untouched or unscarred.
19:47I was rejected
19:49for seven years.
19:57Then he's a blind bastard.
20:05Rocko was known as Crimson Moon's fiercest warrior.
20:09His presence alone could silent a battlefield.
20:12But now,
20:13as he approached me,
20:15his era was like moonlight.
20:25You're not broken, Susan.
20:27You're the strongest Luna I've ever known.
20:29You just gave your soul to the wrong alpha.
20:33I don't care what you've been through.
20:36What I care about
20:38is how much you had to endure.
20:42I didn't say those words to impress you.
20:45Not to flatter you.
20:46Not because of politics or duty.
20:51But because I meant them.
20:52Everyone.
20:55I had waited seven years.
20:58Not because of a pact.
21:00But because you were worth the wait.
21:03So, Susan.
21:04If you're willing,
21:05I want to complete the bond with you.
21:08Not just for the Pax.
21:09But for us.
21:10I looked into his eyes.
21:13And for the first time in a long time,
21:15I didn't see pain or shadows in my reflection.
21:19I saw light.
21:20A legacy reborn.
21:24And we're beginning.
21:27Yes.
21:28I chose a bond.
21:30Not out of duty.
21:32Not out of vengeance.
21:33Because someone chose me first.
21:51You know, I once sat like this,
21:53waiting for someone else.
22:02He never came.
22:04But you did.
22:05You've always been there.
22:07I didn't come because of you.
22:11I've always been here.
22:13It was you
22:15who finally chose to see me.
22:17I looked into his eyes
22:19and suddenly understood.
22:21Destiny wasn't frightening.
22:23What was frightening
22:24was placing your hopes
22:26in the wrong hands.
22:29Rocco was never the one I waited for.
22:31He was the one who had waited for me.
22:34I felt his warmth.
22:35Steady and calm.
22:36And something deeper stirred in my soul.
22:39That familiar pull between true mates.
22:41Stronger than all the some days
22:42I'd once waited for.
22:44But peace doesn't last forever.
22:46Ben came to Frostbone.
22:49He looked different.
22:51Thinner.
22:51Hollow-eyed.
22:52No longer proud.
22:54Susan, you're here.
22:56I finally found you.
22:58I know I was wrong.
22:59I know everything now.
23:00I realized too late
23:02what you sacrificed for me.
23:04Chloe's gone.
23:05The paintings, the gifts.
23:07All her stuff, I burned it.
23:10She never loved me.
23:11She just needed a sugar daddy.
23:13And that day,
23:14when I sat alone in that house,
23:15I realized
23:16none of it smelled like you anymore.
23:18Everything was her.
23:20But you,
23:22you were always meant to be my Luna.
23:24And you only realized now?
23:30Every day I wasn't there,
23:32it was her in your arms.
23:36It was you peeling shrimp for her.
23:39You feeding her.
23:41Shielding her.
23:42And me?
23:43I was just the one who showed up
23:45when you needed something.
23:46Even your idea of fairness was flawed.
23:49You gave me food I hated, Ben.
23:52You know I hate bass with lemon.
24:00You're an alpha.
24:01I was your Luna.
24:03But to you,
24:04I never ranked above an 18-year-old girl.
24:07I'm not the girl who waited
24:08for your marking anymore.
24:09That bond,
24:10I severed it with my own hands.
24:13You felt it too, didn't you?
24:15That soul-deep tearing.
24:16Every day since
24:19has felt like
24:21I'm still tearing apart.
24:23Susan,
24:24please,
24:26let me make it right.
24:29Just give me a chance.
24:33You didn't miss a ceremony.
24:35You missed seven years of everything.
24:39And I don't want to look back anymore.
24:48Then what am I now?
24:54You were once the man
24:55I would have given everything to.
24:58Now?
25:00You're just an ending.
25:03He came too late.
25:08And I had already walked too far.
25:16The day after Ben left,
25:18the Council Elders of Frosthown
25:20came to see me.
25:21The Moon Altar was ready.
25:23This time,
25:24I didn't hesitate.
25:26There was no waiting,
25:28no heartbreak,
25:29no one who would arrive late.
25:31I bathed away the dust of the past,
25:34put on the ceremonial robe
25:35my mother had hand-stitched
25:37with snow-thread patterns.
25:39At my waist hung
25:40the silver feather bone chain,
25:42the symbol of a female alpha
25:44of Frostade.
25:46From this day forward,
25:49you are no one's shadow.
25:50You are the guardian of these mountains
25:52and this sky.
26:01Wolves stood silent,
26:03their low howls echoing beneath the stars,
26:08awaiting the awakening of their true luna.
26:13Do you willingly become my luna
26:15to bind our souls
26:17and walk beside me for this life?
26:25I do.
26:26And then,
26:27the marking began.
26:36A tremler ran through my soul.
26:39The resonance of true connections
26:41surged through me,
26:43like rain falling on parched earth.
26:46For the first time,
26:48the alpha core within me,
26:50balanced,
26:51awakened,
26:52whole.
26:54Lunar Susan.
27:01I'm home.
27:08Do you think you'll regret it?
27:12You're the first person in my life
27:14who made me feel like
27:15I could hold my head high.
27:18I won't regret this.
27:21And in that embrace,
27:23I let go of fear,
27:25of doubt,
27:26of every scar I once carried.
27:29That night,
27:30the moon above Frosthild
27:31shone brighter than it had in years,
27:33as if it had finally found
27:35its true guardian again.
27:39At dawn that day,
27:41the Frostbale sentry horn
27:42sounded an urgent call.
27:45A messenger from the Firestone pack arrived.
27:50Firestone was attacked.
27:53The alpha is gravely injured.
27:54Ben.
27:56Rogue wolves,
27:58led in by an outsider.
28:00A young woman.
28:02Her name was Chloe.
28:10I was not surprised.
28:13From the moment Chloe wore rose-heavy perfume
28:16and pressed herself against me,
28:18from the first time she wept in Ben's arms
28:21while flashing a victorious smile at me,
28:24I knew she was never innocent.
28:27She was ambitious,
28:29wrapped in a child's mask.
28:32According to the survivors from Firestone,
28:35after Ben cast Chloe out
28:37and revoked her place as heir,
28:39she spiraled.
28:40Days later,
28:41she returned,
28:42with a pack of exiled robes
28:45at her back.
28:46She had lured them in
28:47under cover of darkness.
28:49She knew Firestone's defenses.
28:51She knew Ben's trolled alone.
28:54She personally detonated
28:55the Granimary vault,
28:57plunging the pack into chaos,
28:59then opened the gates.
29:02Ben fought.
29:05He resisted with everything he had,
29:07but Chloe bite,
29:10crushed his shoulder.
29:13His bones snapped.
29:14His strength gave out.
29:16Just when they were about to kill him,
29:19he struck.
29:22He killed Chloe with his own hands.
29:25You said you loved me,
29:27but the moment she returned,
29:30you panicked.
29:33You were never worthy of being my father.
29:39The battle left Firestone in ruin.
29:42Ben was carried back to the inner sanctum,
29:45mangled beyond recognition.
29:47He couldn't even hold his wolf bone.
29:49His mind splintered.
29:51His breath stopped.
29:53Twice.
29:57The next day,
29:58the Firestone Council convened a closed cessing.
30:01Ben Lombardi,
30:03due to years of emotional neglect,
30:06political misjudgment,
30:08and harboring a traitor,
30:09is hereby deemed unfit to serve as Alpha.
30:12The position is declared vacant.
30:16A new successor will be chosen
30:19by the voice of the pack.
30:23The news spread across the northern range
30:26like wildfire.
30:28When I heard it,
30:29I felt nothing.
30:31No grief.
30:32No satisfaction.
30:34Just clarity.
30:36Ben's fall was the natural resequence
30:39of the seeds he sow,
30:40Chloe's death.
30:41The price of her descent into darkness.
30:45Some people do not grow from love.
30:48They only learn through destruction.
30:59You're still thinking about him.
31:06I'm thinking,
31:07if I hadn't left,
31:10would Frosthail have been dragged
31:12into the wreckage too?
31:13You made the right choice.
31:15Sometimes,
31:16turning back isn't kindness.
31:17It's enabling.
31:19Ben's story was over.
31:21Mine was just beginning.
31:29I found out I was pregnant
31:31after a long patrol across the mountain.
31:34The clan healer confirmed it.
31:37Rocky stood frozen in silence
31:39for a long time.
31:44I'm going to be a dad.
31:51Two.
31:53Two?
31:55Moon goddess above.
31:58We're having two little pups.
32:00They were born in the spring
32:02of the following year,
32:03when the snow began to melt.
32:06Our firstborn came out first.
32:09He howled the moment he hit the air.
32:13He's going to be a warrior.
32:17The second was slower.
32:19A tiny girl,
32:21small and quiet.
32:24They're mine.
32:25They're ours.
32:30This,
32:31this is home.
32:33The days blurred
32:34in their giggles,
32:35snars,
32:36and soft yips.
32:38They had their father's golden eyes,
32:40but their spirit
32:41was all Frostbang.
32:44They'll grow stronger
32:45than both of us.
32:48As long as they're happy,
32:50that's what matters most.
32:56Remember when you asked me,
32:57will I regret this someday?
32:59Never.
33:02Neither do I.
33:06Now,
33:07I am in the wind.
33:10In the mountains.
33:11In the clear cries
33:13of my two wolf pups.
33:15In the arms of the one
33:16who never made me bow.
33:18And in all of that,
33:19I have everything.
33:27Word is,
33:28Frostvague and Crimson Moon's Luna
33:30is out inspecting the lower valley
33:31with her alpha
33:32and two kids.
33:37Susan.
33:42Beside her
33:44is him.
33:47Rocko.
33:48The warrior alpha
33:49of the Crimson Moon.
33:51One of the strongest wolves
33:53of the North.
33:55She was
33:56happy.
33:58Not the kind of happiness
33:59built on compromise,
34:00but real joy.
34:02And I.
34:04Ben stood in the mud and rot,
34:07shoulder aching from the wound
34:09left by the rogue wolf
34:10three years ago.
34:11After he lost his alpha title,
34:13the council stripped him
34:14of power.
34:15They said
34:16he was unstable in spirit,
34:18impure in blood,
34:20unworthy to lead a pack.
34:24He didn't argue.
34:28They were right.
34:30I had pushed away
34:31the only soul
34:32who ever loved me
34:33unconditionally.
34:35I thought she'd never leave,
34:37but she did.
34:38Completely.
34:41Susan.
34:52Are you hungry?
34:54Susan,
34:56be happy.
34:58Since then,
34:59Ben had never gone near
35:01Frosthail again.
35:02He remained on the outskirts
35:03of Firestone,
35:04serving as a low-ranking watchguard.
35:07But every year,
35:09when the first snow falls,
35:12he climbed to the peak
35:14of the northern ridge
35:15and sit alone
35:16through the night.
35:18If I could do it all again,
35:21I would mark you first,
35:23love you first,
35:25choose you first.
35:30But there is no again.
35:31I am gone.
35:33Gone into the life
35:34she always deserved.
35:42Word is,
35:43Frostvague and Crimson Moon's
35:45Luna is out inspecting
35:46the Lower Valley
35:46with her alpha
35:47and two kids.
35:52Susan.
35:57Beside her
35:59was him.
36:02Rocco,
36:03the warrior alpha
36:05of the Crimson Moon,
36:06one of the strongest wolves
36:08of the North.
36:10She was happy.
36:13Not the kind of happiness
36:14built on compromise,
36:15but real joy.
36:17And I.
36:19Ben stood in the mud and rot,
36:22shoulder aching from the wound
36:24left by the rogue wolf
36:25three years ago.
36:26After he lost his alpha title,
36:28the council stripped him
36:29of power.
36:30They said he was
36:31unstable in spirit,
36:33impure in blood,
36:35unworthy to lead a pack.
36:39He didn't argue.
36:43They were right.
36:45I had pushed away the only soul
36:47who ever loved me unconditionally.
36:50I thought she'd never leave,
36:52but she did.
36:53Completely.
36:55Susan.
37:07Are you hungry?
37:09Susan,
37:11be happy.
37:13Since then,
37:14Ben had never gone near
37:16Frost Hail again.
37:17He remained on the outskirts
37:18of Firestone,
37:20serving as a low-ranking watchguard.
37:22But every year,
37:24when the first snow falls,
37:27he climbed to the peak
37:29of the northern ridge
37:30and sit alone
37:31through the night.
37:33If I could do it all again,
37:36I would mark you first,
37:38love you first,
37:40choose you first.
37:45But there is no again.
37:46I am gone.
37:48Gone into the life
37:49she always deserved.
37:55Anyone there?
37:56The door is locked!
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