~SELENE~
The Keep was more quiet than usual.
Not the quiet of peace… no… this was something far more dangerous.
It was the silence of wolves circling one another. Waiting. Watching. And beneath it all… something beginning to fracture.
Since my return… the triplets hadn’t spoken to me directly. Not in anger… not in forgiveness… nothing. They moved around me like ghosts… always present… never close. They weren’t just punishing me. They were trying to understand what I had become.
Or maybe... what I had chosen.
I stood in the war room that afternoon… the map of the valley spread before me… markers moved… positions updated. Reports of Magnus’s patrols came in like storm warnings… closer each day… testing our defenses… pressing against the edges of our control.
“He’s escalating,” said Da
