THE ECLIPSE WAR
The sky began to darken long before the moon touched the sun.
It wasn’t the kind of darkness that came with clouds or storm. This was heavier. Thicker. As though the world itself was holding its breath.
Elara stood at the ridge overlooking the valley, wind threading through her silver-bright hair. The pack gathered below warriors shifting between human and wolf, blades drawn, shoulders squared. The air pulsed with tension.
And fear.
She could feel it through the bond.
Through him.
Kael stepped beside her, his presence grounding and fierce all at once. The Alpha’s power rolled off him like heat from fire controlled, lethal, coiled tight.
“It begins at first contact,” he said quietly.
She nodded.
Across the valley, black banners moved like stains across the earth.
