~Gray Lowell
The cold, unforgiving light of dawn bled through the cracked window pane of my Oakhaven apartment, casting long, jagged shadows across the floorboards. I stood motionless by the glass, my tall frame rigid as I stared out into the grey abyss of the city streets below. For ten years, this lawless concrete desert had been my cage. Ten years of living among banished wolves, wandering outcasts, and worthless humans who didn't even know the proper meaning of a royal bloodline.
My dark eyes tracked the distant silhouette of the city skyline, but my mind was already miles away, crossing the boundary lines of the territory that belonged to me by birthright.
The sharp, irritating ring of the alarm clock on the nightstand shattered the silence of the room. It was exactly 6:00 AM.
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