I spent the night searching for answers. Read every book on First One Magic. Every text about the Void. Every legend about cursed bloodlines and ancient seals.
Nothing. No loopholes. No alternatives. Just death.
Kade found me at dawn in my father’s old study. I had not slept. Had not eaten. Just kept searching for something that did not exist.
“You need to rest,” he said.
“I need to save our pack.”
“Not by killing yourself.” He pulled me away from the books. Made me look at him. “There has to be another way. Something Aurora is not telling us.”
“Like what? Some secret ritual? Some forgotten magic?” I laughed. It sounded broken. “I have read everything, Kade. Every text. Every story. They all say the same thing. Nine cursed bloodlines sacrifice themselves or the world ends.”
“Then we
