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00:00J'ai trouvé mon corps dans le woods.
00:02Pas de funeral, pas de grave, juste des crônes.
00:04Et c'est la deuxième fois que j'ai été pour lui.
00:06Dans mon monde, être blindé est un défecte.
00:09Je ne suis pas un homme, je ne suis pas un homme.
00:11Je suis un homme, le très bas de la peinture de la peinture.
00:14Pas de strength, pas de shifting, pas de healing.
00:17Un normal wolf peut se faire.
00:19Il meure en minutes.
00:20Il meure en un paper cut et je vais mourir pour des jours.
00:23Mais je n'ai pas quelque chose que personne ne connaît.
00:25Je ne vois pas les faces, je ne vois pas les sœurs.
00:27C'est un déficit, un déficit, un déficit, un déficit, un déficit.
00:31Il meure en ma dernièrement, je l'ai utilisé pour construire une camion.
00:34Lucien, un forgotten fifth son.
00:36Je l'ai pris, je l'ai fait.
00:38Je l'ai fait, je l'ai fait.
00:39Je l'ai fait, je l'ai pris.
00:39Dans la journée, mon sister Celeste m'aimé,
00:41il m'aimé en moi, j'ai agi, j'ai agi de la peinture de la peinture.
00:45Il meure a l'eux de la peinture.
00:49Tu blindes, tu sais que je n'avais jamais voulu.
00:52Celeste m'aimé d'un de la fin.
00:54Et parce que vous, elle aimé avec Marcus.
00:56Ils torturent elle à la mort.
00:58C'est tes l'alignés.
01:02Je l'ai emplique.
01:04Il m'aimé en anglais.
01:05Celeste a royal burial.
01:06Il m'aimé la peinture.
01:08Il m'aimé la peinture.
01:10Il m'aimé de la peinture.
01:14Il m'aimé l'aligné.
01:17Il m'aimé de la peinture.
01:18Il m'aimé d'un de la peinture.
01:19Il m'aimé d'un de la peinture.
01:19Lucien m'aimé l'ai été bouloté par lui
01:20et l'aimé orientée à Celeste leweste duoulot.
01:22Comme il m'aimé d'un poteur.
01:24Il m'aimé de l'!!!
01:26C'est parti !
01:56C'est parti !
02:27A voice that can calm even the most violent alpha in the world.
02:31The family treats her like a goddess.
02:33They treat me like a mistake they can't take back.
02:36Lucian dropped to one knee in front of her.
02:39Accept my mark Celeste.
02:41I will make you the most powerful woman alive.
02:44And as he spoke, he threw one look back at me.
02:47Not an apology, a warning.
02:50He thinks he can take the throne without me this time.
02:52He thinks I was what held him back.
02:54He has no idea what he just threw away.
02:56I didn't awaken a wolf when I was in a cage.
02:59I got something much more dangerous.
03:01The soul line.
03:05Jealousy is toxic green.
03:07Hate is a bottomless black.
03:09Love is pink.
03:10And the deeper the feeling, the darker it burns.
03:14In my last life, I kept him alive with this.
03:17I spotted assassins before they moved.
03:19I told him who to trust, who to kill.
03:22This time, I am going to let him have exactly what he wanted.
03:25And watch him realize too late that without me, he is nothing.
03:29And I really hope, for his sake, he doesn't end up crawling back to me, begging for a mercy
03:35over long enough.
03:37The moment Lucian's announcement landed, every eye in the room found me.
03:41I'm just a blind girl.
03:43I'm not worthy of a man like Lucian.
03:45Celeste is the perfect match for him.
03:48At least you know your place.
03:49He stepped closer.
03:50An Omega with no wolf?
03:51I wouldn't choose you, if you were the last woman breathing.
03:56Not even if you crawled to me on your knees.
03:58My mother Marilyn made a sound beside me.
04:01A sharp inhale, like she was about to say something she shouldn't.
04:04I squeezed her hand.
04:05She went quiet.
04:06I swept the room with my soul line.
04:09Marcus, murky charcoal, cool underneath the surface.
04:12The other airs, muddy swirls of greed and want.
04:15In my last life, I chose Lucian because his soul looked cleaner than anyone else's in the room.
04:20It was a mask.
04:22I didn't see what was underneath until the day he killed me.
04:24A rotten, pink, purple black.
04:26We didn't just hate what it was.
04:28We hated her.
04:29I was blind in my last life in more ways than one.
04:32Never again, Celeste glided toward me.
04:34Face arranged into the perfect picture of a loving older sister.
04:38Don't be sad.
04:39Go ahead.
04:41I'll let you have whoever you want.
04:43Her soul was turning toxic green, edge to edge.
04:46Pure jealousy, barely holding its shape.
04:49Since no one's going to claim you anyway, you can always beg me for work.
04:54Celeste will need a personal maid.
04:55Who sees fest smitching floors, scrubbing floors all a wolfless Omega is good for.
04:59I didn't blink.
05:00I didn't even bother.
05:01None of them were worth the energy.
05:04And then, the sound of wheels.
05:06The chatter died.
05:07Then the room shifted.
05:09Kyle Ravenscroft had arrived.
05:12Uninvited.
05:13Unannounced.
05:14And completely unmoved by the spectacle.
05:16He sat in that wheelchair like a predator at rest.
05:19And then I saw.
05:21My breath caught.
05:22His soul was gold.
05:23Pure.
05:24Shimmering.
05:25Blind in gold.
05:26The mark of the moon goddess herself.
05:28The mark of a true king.
05:30I clenched my fists so hard my nails broke the skin.
05:34Last life, I picked the wrong man.
05:37I defied the moon goddess.
05:38Put a monster on the throne.
05:40And everyone paid for it.
05:42Not this time.
05:44I stood up.
05:45I walked past Lucian without a glance.
05:47Past every arrogant alpha heir in the room.
05:49I stopped in front of Kyle's wheelchair.
05:52I choose him.
05:53The hall went dead silent.
05:55Then it exploded.
05:57Lifejerk.
05:57From every direction.
06:00The blind girl and the cripple.
06:02Neither of you has a wolf.
06:05You really are a perfect match.
06:09Xayah.
06:11You can't see.
06:12You don't understand.
06:14He's in a wheelchair.
06:16She glanced at the crowd.
06:18Milking every second of it.
06:20I'll pretend I didn't hear that.
06:23Choose again.
06:24And if you truly can't find an alpha willing to have you.
06:27You're welcome to follow our caravan.
06:31Serve Lucian and me.
06:33At least you won't go hungry.
06:35I'm not anyone's servant.
06:37And I'm not a stray you take in out of pity.
06:39Kyle hadn't said a word through any of it.
06:42He just put his chair forward until he was right in front of me.
06:45He took my hand.
06:46His palm was large and rough.
06:48Thick with calluses.
06:50The palm he only got from yours of hard use.
06:56He took my hand and guided it to his knee.
06:59No flinching.
07:00No excuses.
07:02If he was lying.
07:03He didn't want pity for it.
07:04I left my hand there.
07:06I could feel the heat of him through the fabric and tents alive.
07:10Then a jolt.
07:11It shot through my fingertips, raced up my arm.
07:14And hit my chest like a beast.
07:16This wasn't the soul line.
07:17It was something else entirely.
07:19My blood was screaming.
07:21I don't have a wolf.
07:22I was never supposed to feel a mate bond.
07:25But there it was.
07:29Kyle's whole body locked up.
07:31I looked into his soul.
07:33Warm pink threading through shimmering gold.
07:35I leaned in close and smiled.
07:37He sits from next.
07:39Lucian's face went ugly.
07:40The mating ball isn't over.
07:42And you're out here making promises you can't keep?
07:45If you fail to heal him, the Alpha Council will have your head.
07:49Can you actually do it?
07:50I didn't answer right away.
07:52I let my fingers trail slowly along his tensed file.
07:56I can.
07:57But it'll require a very specific kind of contact.
08:01He understood immediately.
08:02The tips of his ears went red.
08:04He turned his head away.
08:06Couldn't quite bring himself to look at me.
08:08In my peripheral vision, Lucian's soul ignited.
08:12A roaring wall of green fire.
08:14Jealousy.
08:15A cold laugh rose in my chest.
08:17Jealous of what?
08:18Exaggeration.
08:19You're the one who poured poison down my throat.
08:22The moment I stepped outside the hall, the world tilted.
08:25White hot pain detonated behind my eyes.
08:29Like something was being driven through my skull from the inside.
08:32That is the cost.
08:34Every time I used the full eye on that many people at once, it cost me.
08:38I pressed my freezing fingers to my temples.
08:41The cold always came after.
08:43After the ball, Lucian got to work.
08:45He pulled up everything from our past life.
08:47Her favorite flowers.
08:48Her secret hiding spots.
08:51Every word she'd been waiting her whole life to hear.
08:54He played her like he'd been practicing for years.
08:56That same day, a mating contract arrived at my door on heavy old parchment.
09:03I accept you as my mate.
09:05I will hold and protect you in this life and the next.
09:08Not even death will part us.
09:10The handwriting was deep and certain.
09:12No hesitation in a single stroke.
09:14It felt exactly like him.
09:16Both weddings were set for the same morning.
09:18The night before, Celeste walked into my room like she owned it.
09:21She didn't knock.
09:22Her maid tossed something at my feet.
09:24A tattered gray shawl.
09:26A kind worn by the lowest ranking omegas.
09:29A mark of total submission.
09:32You're a blind freak, Zara.
09:37No real alpha will ever claim you.
09:40She leaned in.
09:41Voice honeyed and vicious at the same time.
09:45Lucian and I are being generous.
09:47We're keeping you on as a servant.
09:50But on the day of the ceremony,
09:52no carriage for you.
09:53You'll wear that when you walk behind the caravan.
09:57Servant's entrance.
09:58Don't embarrass us.
09:59The morning came.
10:00I left the shawl on the floor where it landed.
10:03I put on the dress Kyle had sent instead.
10:06White silk, thousands of diamonds sewn into the fabric.
10:09Small enough to look like starlight.
10:12At the estate gates, two carriages waited.
10:15One was extraordinary.
10:17Draped in thumb-sized pearls.
10:19Built like a throne that happened to have wheels.
10:21The other was plain standard work.
10:24Nothing remarkable.
10:27Celeste didn't hesitate for a second.
10:29She walked straight to the pearl carriage and stepped inside.
10:34The head guard turned to me.
10:36His expression didn't waver.
10:39You're in the wrong carriage.
10:41This was commissioned by Alpha Kyle for his Luna and no one else.
10:45He didn't get her time to argue.
10:47The guards took her by the arms and pulled her out.
10:50She caught her heel in her skirt and went down hard for her face to face into the dirt.
10:56Lucian arrived just in time to see it.
10:59Celeste scrambled up and threw herself at him, already crying.
11:05It's Zara!
11:07She planned this!
11:10She can't stand that I'm the one becoming a Luna!
11:13She turned to the crowd gathering around them, eyes blisting.
11:17Please, don't hate her.
11:18She's struggling.
11:20I know we're in love, Lucian.
11:23But I begged you to keep her safe.
11:25I cheated for months just so she could be our servant and I not starve on the street.
11:32She's a blind Omega.
11:33She should be grateful anyone even bothered to take her in.
11:36To pull a strunt like this on her sister's wedding day?
11:39It's fetic.
11:40The crowd was vicious.
11:42They always are when they smell wetness.
11:45Lucian's soul was drowning in black.
11:47Thick, suffocating, ink dark.
11:49He pulled Celeste against his chest and turned on me.
11:53You're an Omega, Zara.
11:56You have no right to wear white.
11:58Take that dress off right now or I'll shred it off your back myself!
12:04Celeste buried her face in his chest.
12:06But I could see her soul.
12:08She was smirking.
12:10Lucian, you don't have me watching your back this time.
12:14What's coming for you tonight isn't a wedding.
12:18It's a funeral.
12:21Celeste reproiled like I'd struck her.
12:23How can you curse him like that?
12:25Just because he didn't choose you?
12:28You dare curse an Alpha heir?
12:32Guards!
12:32Seize her!
12:34The soldiers started moving in.
12:37Think carefully.
12:38You're laying a hand on Alpha Kyle's mate.
12:42Make sure that's a consequence you're ready to live with.
12:44Lucian laughed.
12:45Jagged.
12:46Ugly.
12:47Kyle?
12:47The cripple isn't even here.
12:50Probably hiding in his chambers, too embarrassed to show his face.
12:53He's using you for sport, Zara.
12:55Nothing more.
12:56He stepped forward, close enough that his shadow fell over me.
12:59Neil.
13:00Beg Celeste's forgiveness.
13:02And maybe, maybe, I'll still find a use for you.
13:06Then a voice cut through everything.
13:07Who is threatening my mate?
13:09The crowd spooked.
13:10Kyle moved through them like they weren't there.
13:12Sharp black suit.
13:13Not a single piece out of place.
13:15Even seated.
13:16His presence was suffocating.
13:17The moment he appeared, the street went silent.
13:20Beside him, Lucian suddenly looked at the boy wearing his mask.
13:25Kyle came straight to me.
13:27He took my hand and folded it inside his large, warm, uncurried.
13:33Then he ripped up.
13:35Now.
13:35His eyes fixed on Lucian like a blade finding its mark.
13:38Let's try that again.
13:40Who was it that told my mate to move?
13:42The temperature in the street seemed to drop.
13:45No one walked.
13:46No one breathed.
13:47He didn't shout.
13:48Didn't signal his men.
13:49He just watched Lucian the way a predator watches something it has already decided to deal with later.
13:55I'll remember that.
13:56I'm an alpha heir.
13:58Same as you.
13:59Who the hell do you think you are?
14:00Who the hell do you think you are?
14:02A forgotten fifth son?
14:04Trying to give orders to my mate.
14:06You're not a rival, Lucian.
14:09You're a fit note.
14:10The color drained from Lucian's face.
14:12This isn't over.
14:14Low and mean.
14:15You'll both regret tonight.
14:18I gave you a chance, Zara.
14:20When you come crawling back, and you will, don't expect mercy.
14:25I looked at his soul.
14:26Muddy for him.
14:27Murky and small.
14:28He genuinely believes he is the chosen one.
14:30He thinks the throne is already his, and that I was just dead weight holding him back.
14:35He has no idea what is waiting for him.
14:37Without me clearing his path, he won't last the season.
14:41He'll be lucky to still be breathing by the time the leaves turn.
14:44Oh, our first night as mates was quiet.
14:46Just the two of us, and the fire crackling low between us.
14:51We shared whiskey, amber, and slow burning on the way down.
14:56I could feel his eyes, heavy and silver warm against my skin.
15:00My pulse wouldn't settle.
15:02Even sitting across from me in that chair, his presence filled the entire room.
15:06You said you could fix my legs.
15:10How?
15:12Help me with something first.
15:15I've never seen this room.
15:18Describe it to me.
15:21Then he started talking.
15:22The fires glow.
15:24The oil paintings.
15:25He told me their textures, not just their subjects.
15:28The velvet curtains.
15:30Deep and heavy.
15:31On the shelf above the nightstand, there's an old book.
15:36The cover is faded.
15:38My hand stilled around the glass.
15:40That shelf was high, nearly at the ceiling.
15:43From a wheelchair, the top of that book was completely out of sight.
15:47There was no way he could know the cover was faded.
15:50I didn't say a word.
15:51I just took another sip and filed that detail away somewhere.
15:55I wouldn't forget it.
15:56I stood up with my glass in hand, then let it slip.
16:01It hit the carpet with a dull thud and rolled toward the sofa.
16:05Kyle's body moved before his mind could stop it.
16:08His chest surged forward.
16:10The muscles in his thighs locked and coiled, dense as iron cables.
16:14For a single, unguarded second, he was about to stand.
16:18Then he caught himself and settled back into the leather as if nothing had happened.
16:22But I felt it.
16:24That reflex was all the confirmation I needed.
16:26I didn't say anything.
16:28Not yet.
16:29There's one more way to be sure.
16:33I stepped in close.
16:35And I straddled his lap.
16:38Kyle stopped breathing.
16:40The heat from his hands soaked straight through the silk.
16:43It burned against my skin like a brand.
16:46My heart was slamming.
16:48I ignored it.
16:50I raised my hand and let my fingertips trace from his jaw down to his chest.
16:55Hard as stone beneath the shirt.
16:57Not the body of a man who hadn't used his legs in seven years.
17:01I looked into his soul.
17:02A storm, deep crimson, soft pink.
17:05Something more tender than he'd admit.
17:07And threading through both.
17:09A sharp streak of dark green panic.
17:11He knew I was getting close.
17:14I leaned down.
17:19My lips barely grazed the corner of his mouth.
17:23Not a kiss.
17:24A question.
17:25His breathing came apart.
17:26And then I took his hand and pressed his palm flat against my chest.
17:30The silk between us was nothing.
17:32My face was burning.
17:34Because in that moment, his body gave me the most honest answer he had.
17:39His body reacted before his mind could stop it.
17:42I felt the shift in his balance.
17:44The sudden brace through his thighs.
17:46The instinctive drive upward.
17:48A man who hadn't used his legs in seven years wouldn't move like that.
17:52I pulled back just enough.
17:54Let the smile come slowly.
17:56Your legs are fine.
17:57That much, I know.
17:59Kyle closed his eyes.
18:00His throat moved as he swallowed.
18:02Then he stood up.
18:04One hand stayed at my waist.
18:06The other still pressed against my chest.
18:08He lifted me and I felt just how much of him there was.
18:11Nearly six foot tall.
18:13All of it muscle.
18:14My whole world was suddenly just him.
18:17How did you know?
18:18I just smiled and gave him something vague enough to pass.
18:22He set me down gently on the edge of the bed.
18:24Then stepped back.
18:26The hand that had touched my chest was shaking.
18:28I'm sorry, I shouldn't have.
18:30Don't.
18:31I'm the one who put your hand there.
18:33He looked at me for a long moment.
18:35And laughed.
18:36A real laugh.
18:37Warm and unguarded.
18:38Like seven years of tension finally giving way.
18:41Seven years.
18:43Seven years fooling everyone.
18:45The whole damn world.
18:47And my blind mate catches me on the very first night.
18:50We didn't go any further that night.
18:52We ended up on the rug in front of the fire.
18:54The bottle of whiskey between us.
18:56And we just...
18:57Talked.
18:58He told me about the night his parents were killed.
19:00They called it a rogue wolf attack.
19:03Everyone knew what it actually was.
19:06The Alpha King had ordered it.
19:07He was 15 years old.
19:09Standing at their funeral.
19:10And he made a decision.
19:12He would become the cripple.
19:14Invisible.
19:16Unthreatening.
19:17Off the king's list entirely.
19:19It was the only way to stay alive.
19:21I told him about Lucian.
19:23All of it.
19:24What he was underneath.
19:26I didn't choose you because I had no other options.
19:29I chose you because you were the only one worth choosing.
19:34I watched his soul begin to shift.
19:36The gold bleeding slowly into a deep and glowing ache.
19:41Late into the night, it came back.
19:43The splitting pain behind my temples.
19:45Like an axe working its way through bone.
19:47I tried to keep my hands still.
19:49They were shaking anyway.
19:51Kyle stopped mid-sentence.
19:53Your head.
19:54Before I could deflect, his thumbs were already at my temples.
19:58The pressure.
19:59Exact like he'd mapped the pain before he touched it.
20:02My mother used to get them.
20:04I've known what to do since I was a boy.
20:06The pain didn't ease.
20:07It vanished.
20:08We shared the same bed.
20:09His arm lay heavy and warm across my waist.
20:12My head settled against his chest.
20:14I listened to his heartbeat through my soul lie.
20:17I watched his soul settle.
20:19The gold softening, deepening into a rich and quiet pain.
20:22For the first time in two lifetimes, I felt safe.
20:25Ocean's wedding night was falling apart.
20:27In my last life, a maid tried to spike his wine with wolf's bane.
20:31I caught her before she could get close.
20:33I read the murder in her soul.
20:35Swapped the glasses.
20:37Had her detained before he'd taken a single seat.
20:39This time, I did nothing.
20:41Celeste wouldn't notice.
20:42She wouldn't know a threat if it sat down beside her and introduced itself.
20:46The next morning, Kyle and I arrived at the Alpha King's estate.
20:50No sign of Lucian.
20:52No sign of Celeste.
20:53The corridors were alive with hushed, urgent voices.
20:56The air was poisoned in his own chambers.
20:59He hasn't woken.
21:00The healers say the dose was enough to drop a grizzly.
21:03I kept my face perfectly still.
21:05But underneath it, I was smiling.
21:08Lucian's fall had started.
21:09I missed him that he wasn't going to stop it.
21:11The carriage had barely rolled to a stop when Celeste appeared at the gates.
21:16She looked like she hadn't slept in days.
21:18Zara!
21:19You poisoned him!
21:22Give me the antidote right now!
21:25I felt the temperature inside the carriage shift.
21:28Kyle went very still beside me.
21:30I placed a hand on his arm.
21:31I've got this.
21:33I leaned in and pressed a quick kiss to his cheek.
21:36Then I stepped out into the morning air.
21:39Antidote?
21:40I don't have one.
21:42Whatever happened to Lucian has nothing to do with me.
21:46Liar!
21:48Then how did you know he'd be dying on his wedding night?
21:51I tilted my head.
21:54That's a serious accusation.
21:56Where's your proof?
21:58Did you catch the killer?
22:00Did you find the poison?
22:01I already knew she hadn't.
22:03The spy Marcus sent was a professional.
22:05Without my soul eye, she was a ghost.
22:08By now she was likely across the border, untouchable.
22:11Celeste stood there, mouth open, nothing coming out.
22:14If you keep causing a scene on my land, my warriors will remove you.
22:21Her eyes dropped to my neck.
22:23She saw the red mark Kyle had left there.
22:25You actually slept with him?
22:28A blind girl and a broken man?
22:30I suppose trash finds its own level.
22:32I suppose trash finds its own level.
22:34I thought about last night, the fire, the whiskey,
22:37the long silence after he finally stood up
22:39and I felt the full weight of him for the first time.
22:41Kyle wasn't broken.
22:42He was 10,000 times the man Lucian would ever be.
22:45I laughed.
22:48What is so funny?
22:50I stopped, looked at her.
22:51We're close enough to it.
22:52I'm laughing at how blind you are.
22:55Lucian is going to die.
22:57And when he goes down, he'll take you with him.
23:00If you want to survive what's coming,
23:02sever the bond now, while you still can.
23:05That was it for her.
23:06She swung at my face, wide, furious,
23:10telegraphed from a mile away.
23:11I shifted my weight and stepped aside.
23:13She hit nothing but air.
23:14The momentum carried her forward and she went down hard,
23:17palms and knees in the dirt.
23:18I looked down at her.
23:19Remember this?
23:21Because the next time you raise a hand to me,
23:23I won't step aside.
23:24She stared up at me from the ground, trembling.
23:26For the first time in her life,
23:28she was actually afraid of me.
23:29The blind girl she used to torment wasn't there anymore.
23:33Someone else had taken her place.
23:35Kyle was waiting when I stepped back into the carriage.
23:38He just watched me with those gray eyes.
23:40And in them, not worry, not pity.
23:42Admiration, he trusted me to handle my own affairs.
23:45That respect landed heavier than any shield you could have raised.
23:48He turned to his lead god and spoke low.
23:50No one from Lucian's pack crosses onto my land again.
23:54For any reason.
23:56Ever.
23:59After Celeste was escorted out,
24:01we turned to the business of leaving.
24:03We were heading for Thorn Harbor.
24:04The courtyard filled with people and supplies
24:06controlled chaos.
24:08And through all of it,
24:09my soul, I found a single target.
24:11A guard named Vaughn.
24:12His soul was a muddy, treacherous gray.
24:14I leaned close to Kyle's ear.
24:16Who is that man?
24:19Vaughn.
24:20He's been with me since I was 15.
24:22Saved my life twice.
24:24I pulled back and left it.
24:25Kyle, do you trust me?
24:27His soul flushed deep, dark pink, all at once.
24:30You're my mate.
24:31Of course I do.
24:32He's a traitor.
24:34We changed the route to Thorn Harbor.
24:36And we tell no one.
24:38In my last time,
24:39this was where it ended with Kyle.
24:41Ambushed on the road to the harbor.
24:43Wounds that never healed.
24:44He died defending the city walls.
24:47I finished speaking.
24:48Let my lips brush his cheek.
24:50Kyle's arm came around my waist immediately.
24:53Pulling me in.
24:54Across the yard,
24:55I felt Vaughn watching us.
24:57He clocked how close we were
24:59and walked away fast.
25:00Kyle pressed his face into the curb of my neck.
25:02His breath was warm against my skin.
25:04Are you trying to fix my legs again?
25:07Because I'm happy to wait until tonight.
25:09Or we could start now.
25:11The next morning,
25:12Vaughn was gone.
25:13Kyle sat beside me at breakfast,
25:15cutting my steak into careful pieces
25:17without being asked.
25:18You were right.
25:20Vaughn was Marcus's man.
25:22Buried so deep,
25:23I never suspected him once
25:24in seven years.
25:26It took some...
25:29persuasion to get him to talk.
25:32He looked at me.
25:33How did you know, Zara?
25:35I looked into his soul,
25:36golden pink.
25:37Wound together.
25:38No suspicion.
25:39No fear.
25:40Lucky guess.
25:41The words were barely out
25:42when the pain hit.
25:44White.
25:44Hot behind both temples at once.
25:46My hand went to my head
25:47before I could stop it.
25:49Kyle didn't say a word.
25:50He just moved his chair
25:51flush against mine.
25:52Un-in-hand kept cutting my food.
25:54The other reached up
25:55and wrapped around the back of my neck.
25:56The pain dissolved.
25:57He has stopped asking
25:58why it happens.
25:59He just makes sure
26:00he is there when it does.
26:02Thorn Harbor.
26:03Kyle's territory.
26:04The land was rough.
26:06Resources thin.
26:07The kind of place
26:08the Alpha Council
26:09never bothered to look at twice.
26:11The wolves here
26:12were loyal to Kyle.
26:14The way wolves are loyal
26:15to someone they've chosen.
26:16Out of true devotion.
26:18When I went to the market,
26:19they called me Luna
26:20and refused my coin.
26:21Every stall,
26:22every vendor.
26:23I had to set the money down
26:25and walk away
26:25before they touch it.
26:27I came back
26:28to the estate breathless.
26:29and my maid
26:30watched me come
26:31through the door.
26:33The Luna is blind,
26:34but she moves faster
26:35than any soldier
26:36I've trained with.
26:39Kyle heard her.
26:40That night,
26:41his fingers
26:41found the edges
26:42of my eyes.
26:44Zara,
26:46is it really just
26:47nothing?
26:49I nodded.
26:50He pulled me in
26:51against his chest
26:52and held me there.
26:54It doesn't matter.
26:55I'll be your eyes.
26:56Every sunrise,
26:57every star,
26:59whatever you want to see,
27:00I'll find the words for it.
27:02I watched his soul
27:03through all of it.
27:04The gold was shifting,
27:05becoming something warmer,
27:06deeper.
27:07The more time
27:07we spent together,
27:08the deeper the gold grew.
27:10Every shared meal,
27:11every quiet evening
27:12beside him,
27:13it only became richer.
27:14But then something strange
27:15started happening.
27:16When I was away from him,
27:17even briefly,
27:18I got restless,
27:19not just missing him.
27:20It was physical,
27:21a deep pulling ache
27:22I couldn't reason away.
27:23The further I walked,
27:24the worse it pulled,
27:25until it hurt.
27:26I told myself it was the intensity
27:28of a new bond,
27:28but I knew that wasn't it.
27:30I don't have a wolf.
27:31I was never supposed to feel this.
27:33That night when he kissed me,
27:34his soul shifted into something
27:36I'd never seen before.
27:37A pink so saturated and alive.
27:39It looked like the first day of spring
27:41breaking open all at once.
27:42The most beautiful thing
27:43I had ever seen.
27:45It didn't last.
27:46The next morning,
27:47a piece of encrypted intelligence arrived.
27:49Lucian is awake,
27:50but the damage is permanent.
27:51Intermittent mania.
27:52He has lost control of his wolf.
27:54A slow smile touched my lips.
27:56This was just the beginning
27:57of what was coming for him.
27:58But then,
27:59the catch.
27:59The Alpha Council
28:00had issued a mandatory summons.
28:02Marcus was hosting a banquet.
28:03Every heir was required to attend.
28:05No exceptions.
28:06Kyle had no choice.
28:07We were going back.
28:08Marcus' estate reeked
28:10of bad intentions
28:10before we even stepped inside.
28:12I swept the ballroom
28:13with my soul eye
28:14the moment we crossed the threshold.
28:16Oily green for greed.
28:17Thick in every corner of the room.
28:19A deep, sickening crimson for lust.
28:21And underneath all of it,
28:22something flat and purposeful
28:23that made my skin crawl.
28:25I found Kyle's hand
28:26under the table and held it.
28:27Don't eat.
28:28Don't touch the wine.
28:29And don't leave my side.
28:30Not for a second.
28:31Kyle glanced at me.
28:33As you wish, my Luna.
28:34I couldn't explain.
28:35Not here,
28:36but I remembered this night.
28:37In my last life,
28:38this banquet ended in blood.
28:40Their souls were a flat,
28:41professional gray.
28:42The color of people
28:43who had killed before
28:44and slept just fine after.
28:46Last time,
28:47when the blades came out,
28:48I didn't think.
28:49I just threw myself
28:50in front of Lucian
28:51and took a poison silver dagger
28:52to the lips.
28:53Carried that scar for years.
28:55Anse, when Lucian
28:56was already king,
28:57I mentioned it.
28:57He looked at me
28:58with something close to boredom.
29:00Protecting your mate
29:01is your duty, Zara.
29:02You're already Luna.
29:04What more do you want?
29:05I don't make the same mistakes twice.
29:07It happened fast.
29:08The three dancers
29:08reached into their silks.
29:10Short blades,
29:11jagged,
29:12silver.
29:12and they lunged.
29:14Kyle moved
29:15before I could blink.
29:16He didn't care
29:17about the secret anymore.
29:18He came half out of his chair,
29:20one arm sweeping me behind him
29:22and his guards materialized
29:23from the dark
29:24like they'd been part
29:25of the shadows all along.
29:26A wall of bodies
29:27between us and everything.
29:28We were safe.
29:30I looked past them
29:31toward Lucian.
29:32No one moved
29:32to cover me.
29:33The moment
29:34the first blade flashed,
29:35Celeste screamed and ran.
29:37Straight for the exit,
29:38didn't look backwards.
29:40Lucian was surrounded.
29:41A silver dagger
29:42soaked in concentrated wolfsbane
29:44buried itself into his thigh.
29:46Dark blood hit the floor.
29:48He went down hard,
29:49gasping.
29:50Through the screaming,
29:51the overturned chairs,
29:53the crush of bodies
29:54trying to flee.
29:55His eyes found mine.
29:57He was begging.
29:58His soul was a wreck.
29:59Terror and pain
30:01and underneath it all,
30:02a dark green tide of regret.
30:04I held his face.
30:06Kept my face completely still.
30:08Didn't move a single muscle.
30:09I am blind after all.
30:11I can't see a thing.
30:12I didn't make it
30:13two steps into the carriage.
30:15The spike hit the moment
30:16the door closed,
30:17red hot,
30:18straight through the center
30:19of my skull.
30:19It was the worst backlash
30:21I'd ever suffered.
30:22I scanned the entire ballroom,
30:24every soul,
30:25every shadow,
30:26every blade
30:26before they struck.
30:27It cost me everything.
30:29The world went black.
30:30My knees folded.
30:32Kyle caught me
30:33before I hit the floor.
30:34His arms locked around
30:35my waist like armor,
30:37pulling me hard
30:38against his chest.
30:39Zara.
30:39I'd never heard that
30:40in his voice before.
30:41Fear.
30:42My head.
30:43It was all I could get out.
30:44He didn't wait.
30:45He pulled me in against him
30:46and pressed both palms
30:47to my temples
30:48and something happened
30:49that I still can't explain.
30:51It wasn't just pressure.
30:52It wasn't just warmth.
30:53It felt like a hand
30:54reaching through the pain
30:55and pulling it out
30:56from the root.
30:57Gone completely.
30:58In seconds.
30:58I lay against his chest,
31:00dazed,
31:01listening to his heart pound.
31:02Why does his touch do that?
31:04This isn't comfort.
31:05This is something older.
31:07Something that runs deeper
31:08than either of us understands.
31:10And it is starting to frighten me.
31:11While I recovered in Kyle's arms,
31:13the routine is learning
31:14what that blade actually felt like.
31:16The wolf's bane
31:17on those daggers was pure.
31:18It doesn't just wound.
31:19It destroys whatever
31:20the body would normally heal.
31:22It shredded his body's ability
31:23to heal from the inside out.
31:25In my last life,
31:26I took that blade for him.
31:28I felt the silver eat into my flesh.
31:30I felt the poison dissolve
31:31everything I had.
31:32I survived it barely.
31:33And he never once
31:34mentioned it again.
31:35He treated my body
31:36like a shield
31:37he was entitled to stand behind.
31:39This time he got to find out
31:40what it actually costs.
31:42The healers couldn't do a thing.
31:43The damage was permanent.
31:44Lucian would never walk again.
31:46The man who spent his whole life
31:47looking down at everyone
31:48from a great height
31:49was never going to stand again.
31:51The intelligence reports
31:52kept arriving.
31:53One after another,
31:54like a slow collapse.
31:56Lucian confirmed
31:57permanently disabled.
31:59Celeste began her exit strategy
32:01the moment he lost his strife.
32:03She spent months
32:04petitioning the Alpha Council
32:05to dissolve their bond.
32:07Six months later,
32:08the Alpha King had seen enough.
32:10He stripped Lucian
32:11of his inheritance.
32:12No title.
32:13No claim.
32:14No future.
32:15In the werewolf world,
32:16no one pledges their sword
32:18to a man who can't leave
32:19from the point.
32:20In our last life,
32:21Lucian thought seizing the throne
32:23was simply a matter of
32:24wanting it badly enough.
32:26He had no idea
32:27what was actually holding him up.
32:29He thought those allies
32:30followed him by choice.
32:31I made sure they were worthy
32:33long before they ever
32:34pledged themselves.
32:35The traitors he feared
32:36never had the chance to strike.
32:38I silenced them first,
32:40and the commanders he trusted
32:41with his army were placed
32:43there by my hand,
32:44one by one paid for in blood.
32:46Without me,
32:47he couldn't have held
32:48a border crossing,
32:49let alone flowing.
32:52Celeste didn't mourn.
32:53She stripped his estate clean,
32:55jewelry, gold,
32:56every coin she could find.
32:58Then she was gone.
32:59She went back to Marcus,
33:01but the terms had changed.
33:02He didn't want a Luna this time.
33:04He took her as a mistress.
33:06I ran into her yesterday,
33:08a high-end perfume shop
33:09near the harbor.
33:10I was holding a bottle,
33:11a rare blend,
33:12when she reached over
33:13and plucked it straight
33:14out of my hand.
33:15I'll take all of these,
33:17she told the clerk.
33:18She was draped in diamonds.
33:20Her soul was the same
33:21toxic green
33:21I've always been.
33:23She looked me over.
33:24Oh, Zara,
33:25she said.
33:26Perfume seems a bit
33:27pointless for you,
33:28doesn't it?
33:28She leaned in.
33:30Expensive wine on her breath.
33:31It's not as if your man
33:32can stand up
33:33to get close enough
33:34to smell it.
33:35A little gasp.
33:36A hand over her mouth,
33:38eyes wide with
33:39performed regret.
33:40That was awful of me.
33:42You don't mind,
33:43do you?
33:43I smiled.
33:44Not at all,
33:45I said.
33:46Take them all.
33:47The clerk looked baffled.
33:49I didn't explain.
33:50There is no point
33:51arguing with a woman
33:52who's already walking
33:53toward her own end.
33:55She just doesn't know
33:56the road she is on yet.
33:57It was late.
33:58Thorn Harbor
33:59was in a hard rain.
34:00My headguard appeared
34:02in the doorway,
34:03his face tight.
34:04Lupien is at the front gate,
34:06Luna.
34:06He has been dragging
34:07himself through the mud
34:08for the better part
34:09of an hour.
34:10He won't leave.
34:11I walked out
34:12to the entrance
34:13and looked through
34:14the iron bars.
34:15He was there,
34:16soaked to me,
34:17shaking,
34:18worded in the
34:18throat from the road.
34:19When he saw me,
34:21something desperate
34:22ignited in his eyes.
34:23He lurched forward,
34:25and the guards
34:25broke him back.
34:26He went down
34:27into his own life.
34:28Why?
34:29The word tore out of him
34:30like it had been
34:31hot on someone.
34:32Zara, tell me.
34:34In the last life,
34:35you always knew
34:36what was coming.
34:37I thought if a blind girl
34:38could build a kingdom
34:39for me,
34:39then all I had to do
34:40was take the credit.
34:42So why did I lose everything?
34:43He started screaming,
34:44slamming his fists
34:45against his own useless legs.
34:47The sound of it
34:48got swallowed up
34:49by the thunder.
34:50When he finally
34:51ran out of breath,
34:52he looked up at me.
34:53He looked small.
34:55The arrogance was gone.
34:56What was left underneath
34:57wasn't much.
34:58Zara.
34:59Like he said,
35:00quiet enough.
35:01His voice doing something
35:02approximating humility.
35:05I made a mistake.
35:06Come back.
35:08Come back.
35:11The Luna title,
35:12it's yours.
35:13Truly, this time,
35:14we can rebuild.
35:16Together.
35:17Like before.
35:18We can take it all back.
35:20I looked at his soul.
35:21Thick, oily green.
35:23Bottomless with it.
35:24He wasn't performing.
35:25He was genuinely
35:26drowning in regret.
35:27That almost made it worse.
35:29Lucian,
35:30you still don't understand
35:31what you had.
35:32I was never your Luna
35:33because you became king.
35:35You were only ever king
35:36because I chose
35:37to stand beside you.
35:39I turned my back on him.
35:40Walked toward the warm lights
35:42of the estate.
35:43Lock the gates.
35:44If he sets foot
35:45on this land again,
35:47you have my permission
35:47on permission
35:48to treat him accordingly.
35:50The iron gates slammed shut.
35:52The sound cut through the rain
35:53like a verdict.
35:54He was still screaming my name
35:56when I walked
35:57through the front door.
35:58I didn't look back.
35:59But that door
36:00was never opening again.
36:02Celeste's dead.
36:03The report arrived
36:04this morning.
36:05History repeated itself
36:06down to the last detail.
36:08Marcus walked her
36:09into the basement
36:09and they carried her body
36:12out of his estate.
36:13Someone noted
36:14the scent
36:14stay on me.
36:15Looking she'd
36:16snatched it
36:17from my hands
36:17in that shot.
36:18She was wearing it
36:19when she died.
36:20Lucian heard the news
36:22from his room.
36:22He didn't grieve.
36:23He didn't rage.
36:25Good.
36:25She watched me fall
36:26and ran straight
36:27to another man's bed.
36:28I gave up everything
36:29in this life for her.
36:32And that's how
36:32she repays it?
36:33He beat his fists
36:34against the wheels
36:35of his chair
36:36until his knuckles bled.
36:37I never should have
36:38poisoned Zara.
36:39I never should have
36:40chosen Celeste over Zara.
36:41I was still holding
36:42the report
36:43when I heard
36:44the bedroom door.
36:45I crumpled the paper
36:46in my fist.
36:47Kyle walked in.
36:48I turned toward the window.
36:50The sun had gone down.
36:51I was just...
36:52Before I could finish
36:54he reached out
36:55and took the crumpled note
36:56from my hand.
36:57He smoothed it flat
36:58then lifted it
36:59to the light.
37:00Then he lowered it
37:01and looked straight at me.
37:03You're not blind
37:03in the way you let
37:04everyone believe,
37:05are you?
37:07My throat closed.
37:09I couldn't find
37:09a single word.
37:10I looked into his soul.
37:12It was burning.
37:13A sharp,
37:14and a small orange
37:15in a hearing.
37:16Don't I deserve the truth?
37:19I marked you.
37:20I made you my mate.
37:22I would have protected
37:23you regardless.
37:24blind,
37:25wolfless,
37:25it didn't matter.
37:26But for a year
37:27you let me believe
37:28I understood you.
37:30And I didn't.
37:32The blind girl
37:32and the cripple.
37:34Two people who had made
37:35an art form of being
37:36something they weren't.
37:37Standing in this room
37:38in the dark.
37:39Every mask we'd ever worn
37:41was gone.
37:41He turned for the door
37:43and I felt something
37:44I hadn't felt
37:45in two lifetimes.
37:46Genuine terror.
37:47I threw myself off the bed
37:49and wrapped my arms
37:50around him for a while.
37:51Held on.
37:52I could feel the anger in him.
37:54But underneath it,
37:55his soul was already shifting.
37:57The orange queen
37:58leading towards something else.
38:01The harder I held on,
38:02the faster it faded.
38:03My voice came out small.
38:05I pressed my face
38:07against his back
38:08and just held on.
38:09His soul turned pink.
38:10His pride hadn't moved.
38:12He was still standing there,
38:14every muscle locked against me.
38:16But his heart
38:17had already answered.
38:18I came around
38:19to face him,
38:20pressed my cheek
38:21against his chest
38:22and listened.
38:23His heartbeat was fast.
38:25Uneven.
38:26His soul was so pink
38:27it was almost blinding.
38:28Kyle.
38:30I steadied my voice
38:31as best I could.
38:33That wasn't the only thing
38:34I lied about.
38:35This was the secret
38:36I'd carried through two lives
38:37without telling a single person.
38:38I see souls.
38:40I can read the truth
38:41inside people.
38:42He went completely still.
38:44And I know what's coming.
38:46The werewolf world
38:47is about to burn.
38:49Thorn Harbor
38:50will be under siege.
38:52I looked up at him.
38:53In my last life,
38:54you died when the city walls fell.
38:56His breathing changed.
38:57I searched his soul
38:59one last time.
39:00Not a flicker of doubt.
39:01Not a trace of fear.
39:03Only gold
39:04appeared in stone.
39:05Shimmering gold.
39:06Do you believe me?
39:08I asked.
39:09He didn't answer with words.
39:10He pulled me into his chest,
39:12both arms,
39:13no space between us,
39:15and buried his face
39:16against my neck.
39:17I believe in you.
39:20That's the only thing
39:21in this world
39:22I'm sure of.
39:23Five hours
39:24that not as much
39:24to decide.
39:25I'm afraid to be here.
39:26Kyle gave me
39:27the Alpha War seal
39:28and put every warrior
39:29in the pack
39:30under my command.
39:31We didn't just
39:31hold Thorn Harbor.
39:32We took the fight
39:33to the Alpha Wars fortresses.
39:35Then came the first night
39:36of the great siege.
39:37The boss army
39:38hit the valley
39:39and the sea
39:40of Blackbird
39:41and Walter Wall
39:41as far as the dark
39:43was sealed.
39:43Kyle sat in his chair
39:45at the edge
39:45of the fortress wall
39:46watching it come.
39:47Then he stood up.
39:48Not in our bedroom.
39:49Not in the dark
39:50where no one could see.
39:51In front of every soul
39:52on that one field.
39:53He shrugged off
39:54the heavy coat
39:55he'd hidden behind
39:56for seven years
39:57and let it drop.
39:58His bones began
39:58to crack and shift
39:59under the mirror.
40:01He transformed.
40:02A massive silver wolf.
40:03He was huge
40:04larger than any Alpha
40:05in history.
40:06His fur shimmered
40:07like liquid metal
40:07in the dark.
40:08He stood on the edge
40:09of the fortress wall
40:10and he let out a howl
40:11that shook the buried cloud.
40:12Every wolf
40:13on that field
40:14ally and enemy alike
40:15dropped their heads
40:16not from orders
40:17from something
40:18older than orders.
40:19Seven years
40:19of buried power
40:20of swallowed rage
40:21of playing the broken man
40:23while the world
40:23underestimated him.
40:25He snapped his head around
40:26before the echo had died.
40:27That silver gaze
40:28cut straight through the smoke
40:29through the fire
40:30through everything between us
40:32and found me.
40:33I felt at the moment
40:34it landed
40:34not just a look
40:36something that went
40:37all the way down
40:37to the bone
40:38like a string
40:39who taught
40:40over two lifetimes
40:41had finally been raised.
40:43Faded napalm.
40:44He had kept his wolf
40:45locked away
40:45for seven years.
40:47The bond
40:47had been sealed with it
40:48but now his wolf
40:50was falling awake
40:50and everything
40:51that had been held back
40:52came through at once.
40:54He shifted back
40:55dropped one knee
40:56on the stone
40:57chest heaving
40:57hands braced
40:58against the ground
40:59trembling.
41:00When he looked up
41:01at me
41:02it was like a first stone
41:03like he was seeing
41:04something he'd been
41:05reaching toward
41:06without knowing it.
41:07It's you.
41:08His voice was wrecked.
41:10It was always you.
41:13The moon goddess
41:14didn't give you to me
41:15for your gift.
41:17she gave you to me
41:18because you're mine.
41:20I felt the truth
41:21of it in my own family
41:22every piece of it
41:23cooking into place
41:24all at once.
41:25The jolt
41:26when our fingers
41:26first touched
41:27at the maiden ball
41:28the way his hands
41:29could pull the pain
41:30came out of my skull
41:31the suffocating dread
41:32every time he left the ring
41:34I don't have a wolf
41:35so the bond
41:36had come through
41:37quietly
41:38a whisper
41:39where it should have been
41:39but it had always
41:41been there
41:41from the very first moment
41:43we reached out
41:44and touched his knee
41:45our blood
41:46had already made
41:47a choice.
41:48Take your place
41:49as Alpha King.
41:51The Grand Hall
41:52was in ruins around him
41:53dust still settling
41:54from the siege.
41:56And Zara
41:56shall be your Luna.
41:58Kyle didn't hesitate.
42:00No.
42:00One word.
42:01It landed in that hall
42:03like the stone
42:03dropped into steel wall.
42:05I'm issuing two commands.
42:07First
42:09we are establishing
42:10a dual kingship
42:12Zara and I
42:13rule together
42:15as equals
42:16the silence cracked
42:17impossible
42:19there has never been
42:20a woman on that throne
42:22Kyle stepped up
42:23onto the platform
42:24he looked out
42:25across the council
42:26every face
42:27every objection
42:28with the kind of calm
42:29that has nothing left
42:30to prove
42:30when Thorn Harbor
42:32was under siege
42:33Zara stood on the
42:34front lines beside me
42:36every wound I took
42:37she felt
42:40every sacrifice
42:41I made
42:41she had already
42:42paid a higher price for
42:43he brought his hand
42:45down flat
42:45on the stone table
42:46the crack of it echoed
42:48without her
42:49I'd be in an unmarked
42:50grave on the battlefield
42:52you don't get to erase
42:53what she built
42:53just because she isn't
42:54what you expected
42:58I am the Alpha King
43:00and so is she
43:02Alpha King
43:03he leaned forward
43:04voice dropping
43:05if anyone here has a
43:06problem with that
43:07step forward now
43:09no one moved
43:10I have spent seven years
43:11being underestimated
43:12I have no patience
43:13left for it
43:13not for myself
43:14and not for her
43:16the bond had been a river
43:17with no outlet for years
43:18the night the war ended
43:19the dam broke
43:20he marked me
43:21the moment his teeth
43:22found the back of my neck
43:23something detonated
43:24beneath my skin
43:25not pain
43:26or not only pain
43:27something that felt like
43:29being struck by lightning
43:30from the inside
43:30my bones began to shift
43:32I screamed
43:33Kyle didn't let go
43:34he pulled me harder
43:35against his chest
43:36and held on
43:37his soul blazing gold
43:38in my sight
43:39steady as a fixed star
43:40an anchor in the middle
43:41of everything coming apart
43:42something that had been
43:44waiting under my skin
43:45for 17 years
43:46was finally waking up
43:47it was never missing
43:48it was just too powerful
43:49to soak this one's own
43:50that needed something
43:51equally matched
43:52to call it out
43:53I shifted
43:53white
43:54pure
43:54absolute white
43:55a wolf larger than
43:56any female
43:57in recorded history
43:58her coat caught the moonlight
43:59the way fresh snow
44:00catches it from within
44:02Kyle's silver wolf
44:03circled me
44:04on twice
44:04three times
44:06then he stopped
44:07pressed his massive
44:08head against my neck
44:10and let out a sound
44:11so low and so full
44:12it barely qualified
44:13as a sound at all
44:14the elders hadn't moved
44:16in the old legends
44:17the white wolf
44:18is the living avatar
44:19of the moon goddess
44:20she hadn't walked
44:21the earth in 500 years
44:23I had never been broken
44:25my wolf had never
44:26been missing
44:26she was just waiting
44:28for the one person
44:29strong enough
44:29to bring her home
44:30Kyle shifted back
44:32he pulled me into his lap
44:33and held me there
44:34both of us still
44:36catching our breath
44:36the soul
44:38as I looked at it
44:39I had no words
44:40golden pink
44:41woven together
44:42so completely
44:43they'd become a single color
44:45that didn't exist
44:46anywhere else
44:48I knew
44:49said into my hair
44:49from the moment
44:50you chose me
44:51at the ball
44:53I didn't know
44:54what you were
44:56but I knew
44:57you were something
44:57the world hadn't seen
44:58before
45:00you were just waiting
45:01for someone
45:01to finally find you
45:02I never let myself
45:04dream this far
45:05in my last life
45:06I was too busy
45:07holding someone else
45:08to ever look up
45:08for myself
45:09now I sat at the
45:10highest seat
45:11in the council hall
45:12Kyle beside me
45:13every outlet
45:14running off their heads
45:16the intelligence network
45:18was mine
45:18the land rights
45:19were mine
45:20to grant or revoke
45:21the power
45:22I had spent a lifetime
45:23building for someone else
45:24it was finally
45:25in my own hands
45:26and then they brought
45:27in Lushin
45:28he dragged himself
45:30across the stone floor
45:31on his hands
45:31he reached my boots
45:33and stretched out
45:34one trembling hand
45:35toward the hum of my robes
45:36a guard stepped forward
45:38his sword flashed
45:40the blade stopped
45:40an inch from Lushin's fingers
45:42Lushin didn't even register
45:44he just started
45:45screaming
45:46this isn't right
45:48that seat belongs to me
45:50you were my instrument Zara
45:52I promised to make you
45:53my Luna
45:54why isn't that enough
45:55for you
45:55get down
45:57help me up there
45:58that's where I'm supposed
45:59to be
45:59I looked at him
46:00for a long moment
46:01I remembered the last line
46:03the rebel wolves
46:04had us surrounded
46:05he didn't reach for me
46:07he didn't hesitate
46:07he turned and ran
46:09and when they caught him
46:10anyway
46:11he offered me up
46:12to buy himself
46:12another day
46:13and at the very end
46:14he was the one
46:15who forced the wolf's bane
46:16down my throat
46:17he was the one
46:18who gave Celeste
46:19my title and my burial
46:20he threw my body
46:22to the crows
46:23and now he was
46:24on the floor of my hall
46:25demanding I come down
46:26and hand it all back
46:27to him
46:28I looked at his soul
46:29there was nothing
46:30and left him
46:31hold him
46:32the guards pinned him
46:33to the stone
46:34he thrashed
46:35he tried to bite
46:36he screamed until
46:37his voice cracked
46:38they forced his jaw open
46:40and I poured the wolf's bane
46:41myself
46:42a quick death
46:43would have been mercy
46:43and I had none left
46:45to give him
46:45this was something else
46:47a slow
46:48total erasure
46:49first
46:50the taste would go
46:51then the smell of air
46:53then the light
46:54fading at the edges
46:55dimming inward
46:56then sound
46:57then touch
46:58then nothing at all
46:59a living body
47:00with no world
47:01left inside it
47:02trapped in the dark
47:03he had always carried
47:04with nothing for company
47:05but his own guilt
47:06it took a week
47:07the guard came to me
47:08on a quiet morning
47:09and delivered the news
47:10without ceremony
47:11Lucian was dead
47:13died in total silence
47:14total darkness
47:16without a single sensation
47:17to mark the end
47:18what should we do
47:20with the body
47:20I didn't look up
47:21for my work
47:22take it outside
47:22the territory
47:23no retts
47:24Nov Marker
47:26leave nothing
47:27I gave his remains
47:29exactly what he gave mine
47:30down to the last detail
47:32the account was closed
47:34the fire had burned down
47:36to embers
47:36the room was almost quiet
47:40Kyle's arms came around
47:41my waist from behind
47:43his breath was warm
47:44and even against my neck
47:49you went to see him today?
47:51I did
47:52I watched a monster
47:54reach the end he earned
47:55I leaned back into him
47:57are you jealous
47:57of a dead man Kyle?
47:59a low sound in his chest
48:01not quite a laugh
48:02he reached up slowly
48:03and found the knot
48:04of the silk blindfold
48:05I still wore in public
48:06worked it loose
48:07let it fall
48:08the moonlight came
48:10through the window
48:11neither of us spoke
48:12for a while
48:12then he took my hand
48:14and guided it to his chest
48:15pressed it flat
48:16right above his heart
48:17Zara tell me
48:18what color it is
48:18I laughed
48:19soft surprised by it
48:21I closed my eyes
48:22and turned everything
48:23I had toward him
48:24this man
48:24who gave me his trust
48:25before I deserved it
48:26who stood up in front
48:27of an army
48:28to unmake seven years
48:29of his own
48:30carefully constructed lie
48:31who fought his way
48:32to a throne
48:33he didn't want
48:33just so I could stand
48:35beside him
48:35on equal ground
48:36his soul
48:37I don't have the words
48:38for it
48:39even now
48:39a pillar of gold
48:40deep and unwavering
48:42and running through
48:42the heart of it
48:43a tide of pink
48:44so rich and so dark
48:45it looked like
48:46the last light
48:46of a sunset
48:47seen through clear water
48:48the kind of color time
48:49can't bleach
48:50the most beautiful thing
48:51I've ever seen
48:53and I've seen a lot
48:54of ugly things
48:55his arms tightened
48:57around me
48:58describe it
48:59I want to hear it
49:00I turned in his arms
49:01found his chest
49:03pressed my lips
49:04to the place above his heart
49:05and held them there
49:06I don't think any language
49:08has the right words
49:08I looked up at him
49:10and I have the rest
49:10of my life to try
49:11to the dark
49:12and then
49:13I knew
49:13that could be
49:13and I knew
49:14but when
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