AWAKENING POWER
The forest was chaos.
Branches snapped, earth shook, and the air was filled with growls and roars. Red eyes glowed in every shadow. The white wolf and its pack circled like predators, calculating, waiting for a weakness.
Nara’s hands still glowed faintly from her earlier burst of energy. Her heart pounded in her chest like a drum, her breathing ragged. She couldn’t control the magic—she didn’t even know what it was. All she knew was that it had saved her… and Kael.
Kael’s massive wolf form was a whirlwind of shadows, faster than Nara’s eyes could follow. Claws ripped through rogue after rogue, fangs sinking deep, powerful enough to crush bone. Yet, even he struggled to keep all the attackers at bay.
“Nara!” Kael barked in her mind, his voice commanding. “Focus! Use it—
