KALEL The Shadow Queen's arrival changed everything in ways that made my wolf want to piss itself and run for the hills. She didn't just appear—she manifested, reality bending around her presence like spacetime having a seizure. Her constellation-mount touched down with hooves that used to be binary stars, each step leaving wounds in the earth that bled starlight and screamed with voices that shouldn't exist. "Well, s**t," I muttered, golden healing energy already flowing through my hands as I assessed the c*****e around us. "This just got about ten times worse." And it had. The Shadow Queen's presence supercharged every remaining Hunt member, their already nightmarish forms evolving into something that made the previous horrors look like children's drawings. Riders whose bodies had b

