KAEL
She cut me off before I could speak, her small voice sounding sharp and desperate. Her blue eyes flashed molten gold, and with it, the air around us fractured.
“I want my mummy, now!”
The world seemed to lurch with her cry. The wind turned savage, whipping the trees until their branches bent and groaned. Loose gear skittered around the training yard, with stones clattering, iron weights lifting and tumbling as if gravity itself had surrendered to her command. Soldiers froze mid-step, their eyes wide and their faces pale, as though they stood before a force too great for their comprehension.
A guard stumbled toward me, his voice shaking. “Alpha… do you see this?”
I barely heard him. My gaze was fixed on the child clinging to me, my child, her fist tight in my tunic, and her tremb
