The weight of Lena’s words pressed down on me like a stone.
The first Eclipse-born.
The fire. The whispers. The power that had coiled beneath my skin since the moment I first saw those visions—it all made sense now.
But it didn’t make it any easier to accept.
I exhaled sharply, shaking my head. “You’re saying I’m connected to him? That I have the same power?”
Lena studied me, her silver-lit gaze steady. “I don’t think it’s just the same power, Idris. I think you are him.”
The words struck like a thunderclap, my wolf baring his teeth in defiance. “That’s impossible.”
Her expression didn’t change. “You saw what I did. You felt it.”
I opened my mouth to argue, to deny it—but I couldn’t. Because she was right.
That voice in the fire… It wasn’t just calling out to me. It was waiting fo
