: Heart of Darkness
It happened during another attack, when Corvus breached the compound's defenses alone - not to fight, but driven by a pain even he didn't understand. Luna found him in the garden, the corrupted alpha's darkness eating away at the night sky itself. He hated everything at this moment even the sweet little pup.
"Why you hurt so much?" she asked simply, escaping Adrian's guard to toddle toward the ancient evil. Through their pack bonds, her family felt her response to something none of them could see - a deep wound beneath Corvus's darkness.
"Stay back," Corvus snarled, his corruption spreading like oil on water. "You can't heal what chooses to be broken."
But Luna just tilted her head, seeing past his darkness to something that made her tiny face fill with tears. "Some
