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Kaelen did the forbidden thing. He frayed while standing, eyes open, in front of witnesses.

Kaelen had never told anyone what he truly saw when the wolves hunted. animrco

And he pulled it out. He came back to himself screaming. His nose bled. His left eye saw heat signatures for three days. But the blightwolf—now just a gray, half-starved female—lowered her head, turned, and loped into the dark without a sound. Kaelen did the forbidden thing

He never frayed again. But once a month, a raven lands on his windowsill, and he nods at it—not with envy, but with the quiet respect of one who has seen the world through another’s eyes and still chosen to be human. And he pulled it out

Inside the wolf, Kaelen felt its sorrow as a physical thing—a collapsed rib cage of grief. He also felt its rage, a second heart beating black. It would not stop. It could not stop. The Sundering had rewired its instincts so that every living thing smelled like the men with torches.

For three heartbeats, he was the raven.

“Let me go,” Kaelen said, “and I’ll fray one last time. I’ll find the Sundering’s source. I’ll end the blight for good.”