Chapter 42
Dae-Hyun The world did not move in seconds. It moved in heartbeats. One. Eun-Ae stepped forward from the stair, tails coiling tight to her spine like spears not yet thrown. Two. Bool-He lunged, a streak of cursed fur and rotten hunger, his one good eye locked on her with a hatred that had long since fermented into madness. Three. The courtyard split open with sound—shields clanging, men shouting, wolves howling—but none of it mattered to me. I saw only her. My fox, my consort, my one thing brighter than this darkness. “Hold the line!” I barked, my voice cutting sharp through the chaos. The shield wall flexed as trained, opening a corridor where Eun-Ae and Bool-He collided in a storm of claw and fang. Their clash was thunder made flesh. Eun-Ae’s tails whipped, cracking like banners i
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