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00:02I have a little gift. Every bad thing I say out loud becomes true.
00:06Six years ago, Grayson stole me from the hospital. The day I was born, for six years,
00:12the silver burned my skin and made my wolf sleep. The daughter Vesper burned my hands
00:18with cigarettes when she was born. Beatrice held my head in the rain barrel.
00:23One time, until the world went black, they said I was a cursed pot.
00:26A broken shifter. I believed them. Today, Derek Grayson gambled away.
00:31Our last time, to a man they call the Reaper. The ruthless alpha of the silver peak pack.
00:36My stepsister Vesper, always whispered horror stories about him.
00:40She said the Reaper devoured little girls alive, snapping their bones and throwing the scraps to his wolves.
00:49Pack your things. You go with the Reaper tonight.
00:54He dragged me out of my cage by my hair. My knees hit the floor.
01:00No! Please! Not the Reaper!
01:04Get up.
01:08Daddy! He eats little girls!
01:16The belt came down once, twice three times, and something inside me woke up. Heat poured down my back.
01:23My bones are folded at the wrong way. My hands turned into paws. Before I knew what paws were,
01:29my torn dress crumpled around something small, and a silver gray, shaking on the kitchen tile.
01:35A wolf popped, all the burns showing through thin fur.
01:41The pelt alone is worth double.
01:44He grabbed me by the scrot and stuffed me in a shoebox. Outside a black car was already waiting.
01:53He took the briefcase of cash and walked away.
01:56The money was already promised, to Vesper's new gown, the one for her gala, at the Royal Lupin Academy.
02:06The leather smelled like pine and old blood.
02:19Haze.
02:19Haze was the man driving.
02:22Goddess.
02:28His heart was slow and huge under my ear. Not the monster sound I was promised.
02:34Drive. Keep it steady.
02:44Drink up. Easy, little one.
02:46It had been so long, since I tasted anything warm.
02:49Nobody's taking it away from you.
02:50Trembling violently against his chest.
02:54Her back.
02:57Those are belt marks.
02:59I've been enforcing PAC law for twenty years.
03:03I've never seen a pup this small with scars this old.
03:10Who did this?
03:12That deadbeat gambler?
03:14Her own father?
03:17Has to be.
03:23Listen to me, pup.
03:26In my land, nobody lays a finger on you ever again.
03:29I swears it on the moon goddess.
03:32The ball was empty.
03:34My belly was full for the first time in my life.
03:37The warm hand kept stroking.
03:39Careful of every scar.
03:41I closed my eyes.
03:42I slept.
03:53My goodness, she looks just like my Selina.
03:57Same white splash on her chest.
04:00Same sharp little muzzle.
04:02Same.
04:05Father, we're going inside.
04:07She's freezing to death.
04:08I was in the area tracking blood bone rogues when my guys blagged the trade.
04:12Some deadbeat father trying to barter his own kid to settle a debt.
04:14I went straight over and got her out.
04:17She stays.
04:18Period.
04:20In the Silver Feet pack, no kid is ever gonna...
04:22That kind of God-forsoken cruelty.
04:24Not on my watch.
04:27Bring her to the table.
04:29Now.
04:30Now.
04:34In a cage at home, I ate what Vesper spit back into her dish.
04:39One time I stole a chicken bone, and Beatrice held my head in the rain barrel.
04:44Until my lungs filled up.
04:48Fire the whole damn kitchen crew right now!
04:51If they can't even make something she likes, they're done!
04:53Get me a new chef!
04:54Sorry.
04:55I'm so sorry.
04:56I can clean it.
04:57Please don't put me in the water.
04:58I'll clean it fast.
05:00Sweet girl.
05:01No one in this house will ever put you in the water.
05:04Over his shoulder.
05:05I saw the guard by the door.
05:06Black smoke was already swirling around his head.
05:11Alpha Kazamin.
05:12That man got black smoke on his head.
05:14Black smoke means death.
05:16If he drives the black SUV, it will explode and go off the cliff.
05:19Search the black SUV in the garage.
05:21Inside.
05:22Underneath.
05:23Every inch.
05:24Ten minutes later, a man ran back in.
05:27Alpha King, the brake lines have been sabotaged.
05:30The cut is clean and fresh.
05:31This was definitely a Crimson Footh hit.
05:35Little princess, my life belongs to you.
05:38I knew it.
05:39The blood doesn't lie.
05:41Get word to the tribunal.
05:43Every Crimson Flang safe house in this state gets torn apart before morning.
05:47Casimiro went out to start the hunt.
05:50Hayes, the lawyer, stayed near my chair.
05:52I watched him slip my used spoon into a sealed bag while pretending to pour water.
05:58Boss wants me to verify her bloodline.
06:00I'm getting into the tribunal lab tonight.
06:01Put it on a triple rush with a sealed chain of custody.
06:05They finally carried me upstairs to a bedroom at the Hawthorne estate.
06:10Tucked into a bed bigger than my foster family's whole trailer.
06:14I closed my eyes, hoping for a night without nightmares.
06:17On the other side of the city, inside that crap, filthy apartment.
06:35Damn, Garrick, you really pulled it off.
06:37Who knew that little brat could actually fetch this much cash?
06:41She was born a loser.
06:42Helping pay for our vessel's college tower is the only useful thing she's ever done in her miserable life.
06:48Still, that lone rark we sold her to, the Reaper himself,
06:51He's an absolute psychopath.
06:53He's probably tossed her out on the street to freeze by now.
06:56Serves her right.
06:57She was always so damn depressing, muttering all that gloomy crap.
07:01Just looking at her gave me the creeps.
07:03Mom, for my graduation bash tomorrow, I have to wear that $10,000 designer dress.
07:07I'm going to show everyone what real luxury looks like.
07:09Oh, we are absolutely buying it.
07:12We built your entire future on that little leech's blood and bones,
07:15so my baby girl can live like absolute royalty.
07:18Tell you what, I'm going to hit up that psycho again tomorrow.
07:21That brat actually has a pretty fur.
07:23Selling her for $50,000 was a total rip-off.
07:26I'm going to squeeze that bastard for another fat check.
07:28Meanwhile, at the Hawthorne estate, I finally slept.
07:32I dreamed of a lady whispering against my baby ear.
07:35My baby.
07:36My Lila.
07:37Mommy is coming for you.
07:39Mommy is.
07:42I woke to sunlight.
07:43Kazumi was in the doorway with a tray of fruit.
07:46Morning, little pup.
07:47Pancakes or sausages?
07:49Sweet or savory?
07:50Don't worry.
07:51I'm having them make both.
07:52Alpha Kazmit, don't you have to go to work?
07:55Daddy said people who don't make money are lower than stray dogs.
08:04Nothing is getting me out of this room today.
08:07We're doing puzzles and we're watching cartoons.
08:13A small welcome gift from the boss.
08:16The pin is your birthday.
08:17I can't take it.
08:18Daddy said I am a curse.
08:20I am not allowed to spend the family money.
08:29I'll clean it.
08:31Please, please don't get the silver belt.
08:33Please.
08:34Guards.
08:35Every sharp thing in this house.
08:37Every glass.
08:38Every blade.
08:39Every silver fork.
08:40Out.
08:41Replace it all with padded leather.
08:42Not one hard corner left.
08:49Listen to me, Lila.
08:50You are priceless.
08:51That gambler's voice is dead in your head, you understand?
08:54Dead buried.
08:59Let it out, little pup.
09:00Cry out all six years of that pain.
09:02Tomorrow we go.
09:03Silver Peak hosts a gala,
09:04and I am personally gonna tell every single alpha on this continent
09:07that you are under my protection now.
09:09That very night,
09:10the results of my DNA ancestry test
09:13were delivered by the laboratory director.
09:17The mall cleared its top floor for us
09:19that the shop girl spelled in two meat lines.
09:22My feet sank into carpets so soft.
09:24Forgot I was a wolf at all.
09:28It's the tribunal lab.
09:30I'll step out to take this.
09:31Don't worry, little one.
09:32The guards have the whole place covered.
09:43Well, well, if it isn't the runt
09:45my daddy traded to the Reaper.
09:47Did you crawl out here to steal half-blood?
09:50That behind her were Garrick and Beatrice Bruce
09:53and that they were here buying gifts for Vesper's gala.
09:56Garrick!
09:58I sold you to the Reaper!
10:01If he finds out you ran away,
10:02he'll have my head!
10:04Garrick, calm down.
10:05Look at her dress like a kept pet.
10:10A creature like you does not deserve this.
10:12You only deserve what I throw in the trash.
10:15My hidden guards were already easing forward.
10:18I caught Casimir's enforcers, I doubt,
10:20and shook my head once
10:22that a crowd began to gather.
10:23But I wanted the world to see what the Griersons were.
10:37Come back to your family, Lyra.
10:40You can't just run off with these billionaire wolves
10:42because they bought you a shiny dress.
10:44We took you out of that freezing orphanage
10:47when you were just a helpless pup.
10:49We starved our own daughter
10:51just to put food in your mouth
10:53and now you throw us away
10:54because you found a rich house?
10:56You heartless, ungrateful little wretch!
11:01Look at this gold-digging crat, everyone.
11:04She hit the jackpot with a wealthy pack
11:05and now she pretends her own family doesn't exist?
11:08She's completely soulless!
11:11How can a six-year-old be so cold-blooded,
11:14abandoning the very people
11:16who rescued her from the streets?
11:18Disgusting!
11:18She thinks the taste of luxury
11:20makes her too good for her own home?
11:33I'm going to teach you some respect,
11:35you little curse.
11:36Let's see you try running after this.
11:40Do it!
11:41Break some obedience into her!
11:43Keep recording!
11:44Let the whole pack see what a snake she is!
11:47Nobody in the crowd tried to save me.
11:50I bit my lip until I tested the warm blood,
11:52but Alpha Kazimir told me
11:54I was a priceless treasure.
11:55The weak little girl
11:56who only knew how to cry was dead.
11:59The magic inside my throat woke up.
12:02It felt hot like fire.
12:05That foot, Garak.
12:07It breaks today.
12:09Shattered.
12:11Splintered.
12:11Not even the moon goddess herself
12:13will be able to piece you back together.
12:17Haha, witchcraft, you little freak.
12:19I'll rip that filthy tongue
12:21right out of your mouth.
12:32Garak didn't land the hit.
12:34Instead, a monstrous shadow
12:36fell over his face.
12:40A massive midnight black wolf.
12:43It was Kazimir.
12:45His eyes had gone full Alpha Silver,
12:47radiating a lethal aura
12:49that forced the shop girls
12:50straight to their knees.
12:55You raised a foot against her?
12:58Then it looks like
12:59you won't be needing that leg anymore.
13:11I am late, little pup.
13:13Forgive me.
13:14You, you're the Reaper.
13:15She's the one I sold to you.
13:17She's my daughter.
13:19I have parental rights
13:21over a Grimson pup.
13:22At the exact second,
13:24he's the lawyer ran across the marble.
13:34That pup shares 0% DNA with you, Gris.
13:37She is the lost granddaughter
13:39of Alpha King Magnus
13:40of the Silver Pea Pack.
13:42She is the only living blood hair
13:43to the highest throne
13:44on this continent.
13:47The crowd inhaled as one body.
13:50Vesper's phone dropped
13:51in her hand and shattered.
13:57Mark crawled at her.
13:59Impossible!
14:01I watched her come out
14:03of my wife's belly.
14:05She has my blood!
14:07County hospital records.
14:09Six years back.
14:10Maternity ward.
14:11Two pups switched during a shift change
14:13after your mate hemorrhaged.
14:15The pup you raised
14:17was never yours.
14:18The pup you raised
14:19belongs to the highest house
14:21on this coast.
14:22You whipped her.
14:23You burned her with silver.
14:26You sold her
14:27for a gambling debt.
14:29And she is the lost daughter
14:31of the Silver Pea Pack.
14:34One more time.
14:35Whose pup did you just try to kill?
14:37Two enforcers stepped forward
14:39and snapped at Garrick's other race.
14:41Haze, pull every license in,
14:44every contract,
14:44every supplier tied to greenscapes,
14:47blacklist the line.
14:50Nobody in this city
14:51does business with anyone
14:52whose shadow has touched
14:53Garrick Grissom.
14:55How much did Lyra's body cost you?
14:57$500,000?
14:59You think six years of silver burns
15:00can be paid off in $500,000?
15:02Beatrice came to you.
15:03Lyra, baby,
15:04I was out of my mind.
15:06Mommy still raised you.
15:08Give Mommy some credit.
15:09I look down at the woman.
15:11Credit.
15:13You mean the winter I slept
15:15on the cold balcony?
15:16You mean the dog food?
15:19You mean when Vassila used me
15:22as her ashtray?
15:25I let the disgust settle.
15:27I let it roll over them
15:28like a wave.
15:30Garrick Grissom,
15:31every bit of luck you stole from me,
15:33I take it back.
15:35From this hour,
15:36every road you walk
15:37lies on rot and ruin.
15:39Every coin you touch
15:41turns to ash.
15:43Every soul that trusts you
15:44turns away.
15:46This is not a curse.
15:48It is judgment.
15:51It comes true
15:52the same way your ankle did.
15:54The mall lights
15:55stuttered.
15:56Garrick tried to laugh
15:57and choked on it.
15:58His phone went off
15:59with notifications.
16:01Bank.
16:02All accounts frozen.
16:03Federal audit.
16:04His tongue could not
16:05stop scrolling.
16:07His face went
16:08the color of old milk.
16:10Vesper's own phone rang.
16:11Miss Grissom,
16:12an audit.
16:13Your admission slot
16:14was obtained
16:14through identity fraud
16:16against another
16:16qualified candidate.
16:18Your enrollment
16:18is revoked.
16:19The phone slid
16:20out of her fingers.
16:22From this day,
16:23you three do not
16:24exist in my world.
16:26We never see each other
16:27again in this life.
16:29I turned.
16:30Kazimierz scooped me
16:31into his arms.
16:32For the first time
16:33in six years,
16:34it felt warm.
16:35That night,
16:36the old man held me
16:37in front of the fireplace.
16:39My sweet girl,
16:41Grandpa looked for you
16:42for six years.
16:45Six years.
16:46I'm sorry.
16:47I'm sorry.
16:48The butler glided in
16:49with a covered silver platter.
16:51And the message
16:52he carried with it
16:53would shatter the calm
16:55before dawn.
16:58Little Luna.
16:59Tradition.
17:00When a silver peak pup
17:01is welcomed under this roof,
17:02we light one candle
17:03for each year
17:04the moon watched over her.
17:05Six birthdays were missed.
17:07Six candles tonight.
17:08None skipped.
17:09Make a wish, sweet girl.
17:11The goddess
17:12is listening tonight.
17:13I had everything
17:14in front of me already.
17:15I blew out all six
17:17in one breath.
17:17For five days,
17:19the silver peak pack
17:20prepared the recognition ceremony.
17:23Calligraphers
17:23wrote invitations
17:24on moonstone parchment.
17:26500 alphas
17:28are SVPD.
17:29On the morning
17:30of the fifth day,
17:31an enforcer
17:31burst into the breakfast room.
17:33Alpha.
17:34Kazmit.
17:35Garrick Grivison
17:36and his daughter
17:37are kneeling
17:37at the main gate.
17:3930 reporters
17:40are with them.
17:41Kazmit and I
17:42ran to the security room.
17:44The monitors
17:44showed Garrick
17:46his right arm
17:47in a cast,
17:48kneeling in the dirt.
17:49Vesper knelt
17:50against his side.
17:52Tears poured down
17:53both their faces.
17:54Friends of the press,
17:55please help an old father
17:57see his daughter
17:58one last time.
17:59We were poor.
18:01I was harsh,
18:02I admit it,
18:03but my father's heart
18:04never changed.
18:05Now she's a Luna
18:06and won't even open
18:07the gate
18:08to her dying papa.
18:09I do not blame
18:10my sister.
18:11We wronged her.
18:15But daddy
18:16has not eaten
18:16in days.
18:18If she would just
18:19come out
18:19to say goodbye,
18:20I swear I would
18:21jump from that bridge
18:22to repay her.
18:24Cameras ate
18:25every frame.
18:26Hashtag
18:26Silver Peak.
18:27Heartless.
18:28Paris was trending
18:29in 20 minutes
18:30in the security room.
18:32Kazmit stood up
18:33so fast.
18:34Drag those animals
18:35away.
18:36Weight them down.
18:37Drop them in the river.
18:39Then,
18:40drag every reporter
18:41through tribunal court.
18:43I want to know
18:44who paid
18:44for the press release.
18:45I caught Kazmi
18:46asleep, uncle.
18:47I looked up at him.
18:48Let me do this myself.
18:50You don't have
18:51to face them.
18:52I have a thousand
18:53ways to make them
18:54vanish.
18:55I'm not the wolves
18:56in the corner anymore.
18:57They want me
18:58to flinch on camera.
18:59They want me crushed
19:00by what people
19:00said to me.
19:01I won't give it to me.
19:03I walked
19:03toward the gate.
19:04Flash bulbs
19:05exploded.
19:06The second
19:07the Iron Party
19:10Garak reached
19:11for me
19:11with his
19:12unbroken hand.
19:13Lila.
19:15Daddy's beautiful
19:16Lila.
19:17Just tell the
19:17Silver Peaks
19:18to settle
19:18a hundred million
19:19on me for retirement.
19:20Daddy will never
19:21bother you again.
19:22A hundred million
19:23reporters
19:24are leaving.
19:24To the press.
19:26This is a
19:27transfer of custody
19:28contract
19:28signed in
19:30Garak Grivgen's
19:30own hand
19:31six years ago.
19:33He gave up
19:33all parental claim
19:35in exchange for cash.
19:36The document
19:37has been verified
19:38by the High Tribunal
19:39Notary.
19:39Where did you
19:40get that?
19:41That was signed
19:41under duress.
19:43You ungrateful
19:44rut.
19:44I fed you
19:45for six years.
19:46Even a stray
19:47would wag its tail.
19:49Everyone!
19:50My evil sister
19:51won't pay a dime!
19:53She did not get
19:54into Silver Point
19:55as an heiress.
19:56She sold her body
19:57to crawl
19:58into that family.
19:59She practices
20:00blood magic.
20:01That is not
20:02the Oracle's voice.
20:03She binds
20:04death spirits.
20:05She killed
20:06her own kin!
20:07The chat
20:07went insane.
20:09Three silver
20:10pink enforcers
20:11ripped the phone
20:12from her hands
20:13and crushed it
20:14under a boot heel.
20:15Haze.
20:16Defamination.
20:18Disturbing public
20:19order.
20:20Inciting violence
20:22against Aluna.
20:23I want her
20:24serving life
20:24by next moon
20:25and the streaming
20:26platform.
20:28Every approver.
20:30Every moderator
20:31on her viral chain.
20:35Bring them in.
20:36He knelt
20:36and turned
20:37me to face him.
20:38Little pup,
20:39one question,
20:40honestly.
20:42Did any part
20:42of you believe
20:43what she just said
20:44about being a curse?
20:45I shook my head.
20:47I believed it
20:48for six years.
20:49The night
20:49you lifted me
20:50out of that car
20:51I stopped.
20:51Rushed me
20:52to his chest.
20:53By dawn
20:54the whole continent
20:55of werewolves
20:56would know my name.
20:59At breakfast
21:00the post
21:00had 200 million views.
21:0250,000 watching
21:03daddy,
21:04you see that?
21:04Once we're Hudson
21:05we get brand deals.
21:06Better money
21:06than your contracts
21:07ever made.
21:07My girl,
21:08my smart girl,
21:09daddy will live
21:09like a king
21:10on your stream.
21:10The multiple
21:11exploded in me.
21:13Six silver
21:14pagan forces
21:14in tactical leather
21:16poured through.
21:18Garrick Griffson.
21:20Vesper Griffson.
21:22You are detained
21:23on charges
21:24of defamation,
21:25criminal harassment
21:25of Aluna,
21:26child endangerment
21:28and conspiracy
21:29to commit attempt
21:30attempted murder.
21:32You have the right
21:33to remain silent
21:34but every word
21:35you speak
21:36will be heard
21:36at the High Tribunal.
21:37Vesper screamed
21:38and depressed
21:39into the group.
21:40Garrick rolled
21:41off the bed
21:42and shrieked
21:43when his cast
21:44hit the floor.
21:45By dawn
21:45three trending posts
21:47owned the entire
21:48werewolf web.
21:49I read the news
21:50in my new bedroom
21:51and let out a breath.
21:53Six years
21:54of held breath
21:55left on my body.
21:56the recognition
21:56ceremony
21:57was at sunset.
21:59The old man
22:01opened a violet
22:02velvet case.
22:03From this moment
22:04nobody
22:06will ever
22:07call you
22:08cursed.
22:10You are
22:10the brightest
22:11moon
22:12Silverheak
22:13has ever
22:14raised.
22:15The doors
22:15swung open.
22:16Five hundred
22:17alphas
22:18and the lunas
22:18rose to their feet
22:20in a single breath.
22:22I asked you all
22:23here for one
22:24announcement.
22:25The pup beside me
22:27is Lyra
22:28Silverpeak
22:28Magnus.
22:29She is not my
22:30ward.
22:31She is not
22:32my adopted
22:32niece.
22:34She is the only
22:36blood heir
22:36of my late
22:37brother
22:38and the lost
22:40daughter
22:40of this house.
22:42from tonight
22:43forward.
22:44She is the
22:45sole future
22:46alpha
22:47of the
22:47Silverpeak
22:48pack.
22:49The hole
22:49erupted.
22:50The old man
22:51pounded his
22:52cane on the marble
22:53and grinned with
22:54tears in his beard.
22:56Across the continent
22:57in a tribunal
22:58holding cell,
22:59Garak watched me
23:00on the broadcast
23:01and his lip
23:02trembled.
23:02That should have
23:03been my girl.
23:06That should have
23:07been my girl.
23:08His cellmate spat.
23:10She is a
23:10Silverpeak Luna.
23:12She was never
23:13yours.
23:14If you had been
23:15kind, you would
23:16be sitting at her
23:17table.
23:19Now you chew
23:19prison bread for
23:20life.
23:21Back at the
23:21days, the old
23:22man pulled me
23:23into his arms.
23:25You came home.
23:26I held a signal
23:27over my heart.
23:28The Oracle's voice
23:29rose one last
23:30time.
23:32Silverpeak,
23:33from this moon
23:34on, you stand
23:36a hundred
23:36generations.
23:38You stand
23:39in peace.
23:40A wind moved
23:41through the
23:41moonstone lights.
23:42Every move in
23:43the hole lifted
23:44their face and
23:45howled.
23:47The invitation
23:48arrived on
23:49embossed gold
23:50paper held at
23:51the rented
23:51ballroom on
23:52the cheap end
23:53of the city.
23:54Vesper had
23:55sent it to
23:55every news outlet
23:56on the continent.
23:58Let the whole
23:59world see what
24:00a heartless snake
24:01Lyra Silverhen
24:02really is.
24:03My gala
24:04will bury her.
24:09Friends,
24:11reporters,
24:12tonight I stand
24:14before you
24:14as a victim.
24:15My own sister,
24:16the pup my family
24:17raised for six
24:18years, has cast us
24:19aside the moment
24:20she found a richer
24:21pack.
24:21We fed her,
24:22we clothed her,
24:23we gave her
24:24everything.
24:26And now she
24:27won't even return
24:27my calls.
24:28The ballroom doors
24:29swung open.
24:30Casimir flanked
24:31her left.
24:32Hayes, the lawyer,
24:33flanked her right.
24:35Hello, Vessler.
24:36You wanted the press?
24:38Good.
24:38They can watch this.
24:43Dog food.
24:56That's fake!
24:57That footage is...
24:58Fake?
24:58Every frame has a
24:59tribunal time poem.
25:01Every frame is verified.
25:06You sent out
25:07200 invitations.
25:09You made sure
25:09every major network
25:11was here.
25:12You wanted the
25:12whole continent
25:13to watch?
25:14Congratulations.
25:17They're watching!
25:19Vesper's phone
25:20exploded
25:20with notifications.
25:23All of them
25:23said the same thing.
25:27The press
25:28warmed the stage.
25:30Not for Vesper,
25:31for Lionel.
25:36Luna Lyra,
25:37how did you survive
25:38six years of this?
25:42Six years.
25:43This is what
25:44their mercy
25:45looked like.
25:46That was
25:47discipline!
25:48Every wolf parent
25:50is strict.
25:51She's twisting
25:52the truth!
26:07Every door you knock on
26:09will close before
26:11your knuckles
26:11touch the wood.
26:12Vesper opened her mouth.
26:14Nothing came out.
26:15The next morning,
26:1653 press outlets
26:18ran front page
26:19condemnations.
26:2147 statements,
26:23all of them
26:23condemning...
26:25Someone knocked
26:26on the door.
26:27Not a reporter.
26:29An enforcer
26:30with a warrant.
26:34Beatrice Grierson
26:35couldn't sleep.
26:36Vesper was
26:37under house arrest.
26:39Garrick was
26:39in a tribunal cell.
26:41But Beatrice
26:42still had
26:42one card
26:43a silver pig
26:44kitchen maid
26:45owed her a favor
26:46from years back.
26:47Beatrice cashed it in.
26:50That's all.
26:51It won't kill her.
26:52It'll just make her sick.
26:54Make her weak.
26:57Make her look
26:58mortal.
27:00Just a pinch
27:01of silver powder
27:02in her breakfast.
27:04No better.
27:05She didn't know
27:06Hayes had planted
27:07motion sensors
27:08in every corner
27:09of the silver pig
27:10kitchen
27:10after the
27:11recognition ceremony.
27:16Silver powder.
27:17Enough to
27:18hospitalize a pup.
27:20How much
27:21did she pay you?
27:24Trace the payment.
27:26Find the sender.
27:27Bring her in.
27:28They found Beatrice
27:29at a bus station
27:30two hours later
27:31clutching a
27:32one-way ticket
27:33to a city
27:34three states away.
27:40You tried to
27:41drown me
27:41when I was four.
27:43You tried to
27:43poison me
27:44when I was six.
27:45I raised you!
27:47Without me
27:47you would have...
27:48Without you
27:48I would have been
27:49found six years
27:50sooner.
27:51Attempted
27:52assassination
27:52of a Luna.
27:54Sentence.
27:55Life.
27:56No parole.
27:58No visitors.
27:59No appeal.
28:01Beatrice screamed
28:02the whole way
28:03to the transport van.
28:04Lyra didn't watch.
28:05She was already
28:06turning toward Hayes
28:07who was holding
28:08a new file
28:09with a very familiar
28:10name on the cover.
28:12Senator Vance.
28:15The High Tribunal
28:17convened
28:18in a chamber
28:18carved
28:19from solid
28:20moonstone.
28:21The charges
28:22were read aloud.
28:23Six counts
28:24of silver torture.
28:25Four counts
28:26of attempted
28:27murder
28:27of a minor.
28:28One count
28:29of pup
28:30trafficking.
28:31Two counts
28:32of conspiracy
28:33to assassinate
28:34a Luna.
28:36Luna Lyra,
28:38do you recognize
28:38the accused?
28:39Yes.
28:40They are the people
28:41who told me
28:42I was a curse.
28:42And do you believe
28:43that now?
28:44She stepped down
28:45from the chair.
28:46No.
28:46Garrett Grivican,
28:47Beatrice Grivian,
28:48Vesper Grivican.
28:49From this hour forward,
28:51not one soul
28:51on this continent
28:52will believe a word
28:53that leaves your lips.
28:54Your names will rot.
28:55Your stories will die.
28:57You will fade
28:58into silence
28:58and no one
28:59will remember you
29:00except as a warning.
29:01It was unanimous.
29:03Life in prison
29:04is positive.
29:05You were nothing
29:05before me!
29:07Excellent.
29:09Six years
29:09of held breath
29:10finally left her body.
29:13Behind her,
29:14Haze cleared
29:14his throat.
29:16Luna,
29:17Senator Vance
29:18sends his congratulations.
29:20He says he looks
29:21forward to meeting you
29:22at the Royal
29:22Looperian Academy.
29:26Vance,
29:27the same wolf
29:28who tried to buy her
29:29from Garrett
29:29six years ago.
29:30He's not waiting
29:31to meet her.
29:32He's inviting her
29:33into his territory.
29:34The magic stirred
29:35in her throat.
29:37Good.
29:38Let him try.
29:41The Royal Looping
29:42Academy gates
29:43were carved
29:44from a single slab
29:45of black iron.
29:46Ten generations
29:47of Alpha heirs
29:48had walked through them.
29:49Every first year
29:50arrived in a luxury
29:51SUV
29:52with their family
29:53crest on a door.
29:54Lyra arrived
29:55in Casimir's
29:56beat-up hunting truck.
29:57He refused
29:58to let her
29:58make an entrance.
29:59You walk in
30:00like you belong
30:01because you do.
30:02The courtyard
30:03was packed
30:03with students
30:04and they turned.
30:05They stared.
30:06The whispers started
30:07before Lyra's feet
30:08touched the cobblestones.
30:10That's her.
30:11The kitchen cage pup.
30:12Silver Peak
30:12really sent a stray
30:13to sit with heirs?
30:14Pathetic.
30:15A tall wolf shifter
30:16with platinum hair
30:17stepped in
30:17Portia Ashford,
30:18daughter of the
30:19Ashford pack Alpha.
30:20Her family controlled
30:21the continent's
30:22the largest silver mine.
30:24So you're the charity base
30:25everyone's been talking about?
30:27Let me make something
30:28clear, little orphan.
30:30At this academy,
30:31blood matters.
30:32And yours?
30:34Yours came from a cage.
30:36A circle of students
30:37closed in.
30:37Their parents were the wolves
30:39who had RSVP'd
30:40to the recognition ceremony
30:42and clapped
30:43with frozen smiles.
30:44Are you done?
30:46Excuse me?
30:47Your father,
30:49Tiberius Ashford.
30:50He sent three emails
30:51to Alpha Kasamin
30:52last week
30:53begging for a trade deal.
30:54Kasamin deleted
30:55all of them
30:56without reading.
30:56Lyra tilted her head.
30:58You want me to ask him
30:58to read the fourth one?
30:59Portia's smirk died.
31:01A friend suddenly found
31:02the ground
31:02very interesting.
31:03A voice cut through
31:04the silence
31:05from the top
31:06of the marble steps.
31:07Well done,
31:08little pup.
31:09Julian Vance.
31:10He was 17,
31:11blonde.
31:12But you haven't met
31:13the real wolves yet.
31:15Wearing a Vance crest
31:16on his blazer,
31:17Senator Vance's son
31:19Welcome to the academy.
31:20He smiled like a wolf
31:22who had never heard
31:24the word.
31:24I hope you survive.
31:28Professor Aldrich Reinhardt
31:30had taught Oracle studies
31:31for 30 years.
31:32He had trained
31:33three generations
31:34of seers
31:35and he did not believe
31:36a six-year-old
31:37could possess the voice.
31:38Class, today we have
31:39a special guest.
31:40Luna Lyra Silverhead
31:43claims to bear
31:43the oracle's voice.
31:46Let's put it
31:47to the test,
31:48shall we?
31:48A real oracle
31:49can read a wolf's past
31:51as easily as their future.
31:52Luna Lyra,
31:53what can you tell me
31:55about myself?
31:56Julian Vance leaned
31:57back with his arms
31:58crossed, grinning.
32:00Your left hind leg,
32:01the old break
32:02from the border
32:03swirmish 23 years ago.
32:05It aches
32:05every time it rains
32:06and it's going to rain
32:08tomorrow afternoon.
32:09The professor's pen
32:10stopped tapping.
32:12Your youngest daughter
32:12dropped out of apothecary
32:14training last month.
32:15She switched to combat studies.
32:17You haven't told your mate yet
32:19because you're afraid
32:19she'll blame you.
32:20The professor's face
32:21went slack.
32:22And right now
32:23your heartbeat is hammering
32:24because you're terrified
32:25that a six-year-old
32:25just read your whole life
32:26in three seconds
32:27in front of a room
32:28full of students
32:29who will never look
32:30at you the same way again.
32:31The classroom
32:32was dead silent.
32:34Professor Reinhardt
32:35sat down,
32:35slowly.
32:37He didn't speak
32:38for the rest
32:38of the lesson.
32:39After class,
32:40Julian Vance
32:41intercepted Lyra
32:42in the hallway.
32:43My father was right
32:44about you.
32:45Your father tried
32:46to buy me
32:46from a drunk gambler
32:47for half a million dollars.
32:49Your father
32:50is a criminal.
32:51Julian's smile
32:52didn't crack
32:53but his eyes
32:54went hard.
32:55There's a combat trial
32:55next week.
32:56Officially,
32:57it's a capability assessment.
32:59Unofficially,
33:00every alpha hare
33:01in this school
33:01is going to use it
33:02to break you.
33:03I hope the Oracle's voice
33:04works against
33:05three adult warwolves
33:06because I personally
33:08arranged the selection.
33:12Five hundred students
33:14crowd the arena stands.
33:16Julian Vance
33:17sits front row
33:18beside Portia
33:19and other heirs
33:20with family business
33:22ties to the Vance's.
33:26This is the ability
33:28assessment trial.
33:29Competitor,
33:30Lyra Silverheek Magnus.
33:32Rules,
33:33no weapons,
33:34no alpha interference.
33:36Nothing but a raw fight
33:38to survive.
33:41Three iron gates lift.
33:44Starved,
33:44scarred,
33:45pony-sized
33:46warwolves
33:47surge forth.
33:48Fangs bared.
33:50So perish down there,
33:51right?
33:52Exactly that.
33:54I step into
33:56the arena's center
33:57and close my eyes.
33:59The crowd jeers.
34:02As the warwolves
34:03charge,
34:04I dodge
34:05every single one.
34:06Thirty seconds,
34:08three wolves,
34:09eighteen strikes.
34:10Not a single paw
34:12lands on me.
34:13The laughter dies.
34:16I open my eyes
34:18and walk straight
34:20toward Julian.
34:20Julian.
34:21Your trial is over.
34:24Julian Vance.
34:26Tell everyone here
34:28what your dad's up to
34:29down in the East Wing
34:31basement.
34:36He's keeping all those
34:38brats locked up
34:39down there.
34:40Bought every last one
34:41of them himself.
34:43He tests their bloodlines.
34:45Persia stands up.
34:46Half the heirs rise
34:48with her.
34:51He sucks them dry
34:54just to steal
34:55their magic.
34:59In an instant,
35:00gods subdued Julian.
35:02Still spilling
35:03their secrets,
35:05he was dragged
35:06off the stands.
35:08Professor Reinhardt
35:09froze by the arena,
35:10lips moving silently.
35:13I leaped back
35:15to the arena center.
35:17Three werewolves
35:18cowered,
35:19avoiding my stare.
35:21Kazimia appeared
35:22at the arena gate,
35:24just heaving
35:25from rushing over.
35:28I'd been glued
35:29to the surveillance
35:29feed the whole time.
35:31The second that door
35:32creaked open,
35:32I'd...
35:33I'm fine.
35:34You dodged
35:35three fully grown
35:36battle wolves
35:37with your eyes
35:38closed just now.
35:40Four,
35:40if you count Julia.
35:43That's my girl.
35:46Half an hour later,
35:48Haze arrived.
35:50Julian's condition
35:51spread across
35:53the whole continent.
36:00It's a baseless charge
36:02from a kid
36:03wielding unproven
36:04magic control.
36:12He used the word
36:13verified.
36:15That's a mistake.
36:17Three hours later,
36:19Haze raided
36:20Vance's basement
36:21and found
36:23sixteen cups
36:24scarred
36:25by silver.
36:27Warned in advance,
36:29Vance fled,
36:30leaving a
36:31three hundred
36:32page ledger
36:33marked with
36:34the Shadow Council's
36:36sigil Haze hadn't
36:37seen for two decades.
36:43The continent
36:45woke up to headlines
36:46that shook every pack
36:47from the coast
36:48to the mountains.
36:49Senator Vance's
36:52underground,
36:52pub network exposed,
36:55sixteen missing
36:56pups rescued
36:57from Vance's
36:58estate basement.
37:00The Academy's
37:02Board of Governors
37:03called an emergency meeting.
37:06Julian Vance
37:06was expelled
37:07by a unanimous vote
37:09before breakfast.
37:11Portia's father,
37:12Tiberius Ashford,
37:13arrived at the
37:15Silver Peak
37:16estate gates
37:16by noon.
37:17Please,
37:20tell Alpha
37:21Chasmid,
37:22I had no knowledge
37:23of my daughter's
37:24involvement.
37:25The Ashford
37:26pack stands
37:27with Silver
37:28Face,
37:29we always have.
37:31Breaking the kitchen
37:32pup in the
37:32combat pit,
37:33breaking the kitchen
37:34pup in the
37:34combat pit.
37:35Tiberius's face
37:36went gray.
37:37He got back
37:38in his SUV.
37:39The same ears
37:40who had whispered
37:41cage pub
37:42two days ago
37:43now stood in the
37:44hallway holding
37:45apology letters.
37:52I don't want
37:53your letters.
37:54A girl near the
37:54front burst into tears.
37:56I want you to
37:57remember this.
38:00Next time someone
38:01tells you a child
38:01is worthless,
38:02next time someone
38:04says she's nobody,
38:06you remember
38:06that two days ago
38:07you all stood
38:08with Julian Vance.
38:09Two days later,
38:11he's in a
38:11holding cell
38:12and you're
38:13standing in my
38:14hallway.
38:15The difference
38:15between a nobody
38:16and a Luna
38:17isn't blood.
38:19It's the truth.
38:21She closed
38:21the door.
38:22The apology
38:23let her lay
38:23on the ground.
38:27Senator Vance
38:28was captured
38:29on the mountain
38:30border as he
38:31attempted to flee.
38:32He had shaved
38:34his head,
38:35traded his
38:35senator's robe
38:37for a work jacket
38:38and was carrying
38:39two million
38:40unmarked gold bars.
38:42Border patrol
38:43recognized him
38:44from the confession
38:45video.
38:46Vance didn't
38:47surrender.
38:48He transformed
38:49a massive wolf
38:51with bulging
38:52leather teeth.
38:53Four law enforcement
38:55officers fell.
38:57The trial
38:57lasted four hours.
38:59The ledgers
39:00were read
39:00page by page.
39:02A thousand
39:03transactions
39:03over twelve years.
39:05Buyers,
39:06sellers,
39:07the names
39:07of those
39:08whose offspring
39:09were never found.
39:11She didn't speak.
39:12She didn't need to.
39:14The chief judge
39:15asked Vance
39:16if she had
39:16anything to say
39:17last.
39:18Vance turned
39:19to look at Lyra.
39:20You think you've won?
39:21You're six years old.
39:23You don't know
39:25what's coming.
39:26The court finds
39:27guilty
39:28as charged.
39:30As the guards
39:30led Vance away,
39:32he kept his eyes
39:33locked on Lyra
39:34until the door
39:35slammed shut.
39:38The night,
39:39Lyra sat on the roof
39:41wrapped in a blanket.
39:43Casimir sat down
39:44beside her.
39:45Sixteen pups
39:45went home today.
39:46You know that,
39:47right,
39:47because of you.
39:48I know,
39:49but I keep thinking
39:50about what he said.
39:52You don't know
39:53what's coming.
39:53He was a cornered wolf.
39:55Wolves say things.
39:56The full moon.
39:58Lyra stared at it.
40:00Just as her gaze
40:01was about to leave,
40:03she saw a shadow
40:04on the moon's surface.
40:06It was the shape
40:07of a hand
40:08reaching downwards.
40:10A prophetic voice
40:12stirred in her throat.
40:14You're not trying.
40:16The summons arrived
40:18three days after
40:19Vance's traffic
40:19through every screen
40:21on the continent.
40:21The signal
40:22has been sent.
40:24Every phone,
40:27every tablet,
40:28every news monitor
40:29broadcast on a frequency
40:30that bypassed
40:31all firewalls.
40:32A woman's face
40:33filled the screens,
40:34silver white hair,
40:35called the violet eyes.
40:36She looked young
40:37and maybe 17
40:38with sharp cheekbones
40:39and a slow,
40:40practiced smile.
40:41People of the
40:42werewolf continent,
40:43for 10 days
40:44you've watched a child
40:46claim the oracle's voice.
40:47You've clapped.
40:49You've wept.
40:51You've let her tear down
40:53your leaders
40:54and reshape your packs.
40:56But you've never asked
40:57the obvious question.
40:58What if she's not the oracle?
41:02What if she's a puppet
41:03wearing silver fur?
41:06And the real oracle
41:07has been watching
41:08from the shadows.
41:11The screen behind her
41:12lit up.
41:13It showed a laboratory
41:14gleaming white
41:15and a man in a white coat
41:17holding up a vial.
41:18The Silver Peak DNA report
41:20was falsified.
41:21We have the original sample.
41:23The girl Lyra
41:24shares no bloodline
41:25with the Silver Peak
41:26Magnus line.
41:30Selina leaned forward
41:31until her violet eyes
41:32filled every screen.
41:34I am Selina Morwen.
41:36I am the true oracle.
41:39And I challenge Lyra
41:40to a public trial of prophecy
41:41in front of the entire continent.
41:43Unless, of course,
41:44the caged pup
41:45is too scared to face.
41:46When the broadcast
41:46back to the continent erupted,
41:48Magnus threw his hand
41:49through the window.
41:50Lies!
41:52Every word!
41:54It doesn't matter
41:55if it's true.
41:57It matters that
41:58half the packs
41:59are already sharing it.
42:03Lyra picked up
42:04Magnus' fallen cane.
42:05She said it gently
42:07back in his hand.
42:09Let them share.
42:10Lyra, you don't have
42:11to prove anything to-
42:12I'm not proving anything.
42:14She is.
42:16The whole continent
42:17is watching.
42:19She just gave me
42:20the biggest stage
42:21in werewolf history.
42:25I'm going to use it.
42:28The Council of Shadows
42:30chose neutral ground.
42:32The Moonless Arena,
42:33a black stone amphitheater
42:35on unclaimed territory
42:36between three major packs.
42:38No alpha could claim jurisdiction.
42:41No pack could control the outcome.
42:435,000 werewolves
42:45filled the seats.
42:46Screens ringed
42:47the arena wall,
42:48broadcasting live
42:50to every pack house,
42:51every bar,
42:52every phone screen
42:53on the continent.
42:54The stream hit
42:5560 million concurrent views
42:56before the trial
42:57even began.
42:58Magnus and Kazimir
43:00sat in the front row.
43:01The seat beside them
43:02was empty,
43:03reserved for Selene.
43:04Good evening, continent.
43:05Her Council Handlers
43:06flanked her.
43:07The Council of Shadows
43:08has protected
43:09the werewolf way
43:09for 300 years.
43:11We do not seek power.
43:13We seek truth.
43:14And the truth is this.
43:16That child wearing
43:17the silver-hit crown
43:18is a fraud.
43:19She pointed at Lyra,
43:20who stood alone
43:21on the opposite side
43:22of the arena.
43:23No handlers,
43:24no guards,
43:24just only a single
43:25six-year-old wolf.
43:26Let us settle this.
43:28Three prophecies each.
43:30Live.
43:30No preparation.
43:32The continent judges.
43:34You go first.
43:36Selene smiled.
43:36She closed her eyes.
43:38When she opened them,
43:38her voice carried
43:39the unmistakable ring
43:41of true power.
43:42Alpha Maddox
43:42of the Iron-Flegged Pack
43:44will break his leg
43:45before moonrise tomorrow.
43:48A werewolf
43:49in the third row stood up.
43:50Alpha Maddox.
43:51He looked at his leg,
43:52then at the cameras.
43:54Nervous laughter
43:54rippled through the crowd.
43:57Elder Judge Hathorne
43:59will receive a letter tonight
44:01that changes the outcome
44:02of a case he decided
44:04ten years ago.
44:05Gosped from the judge's section,
44:07Elder Hawthorne
44:07had his hand over his mouth.
44:09And tomorrow,
44:09a silver mine
44:10in the northern ridge
44:11will collapse.
44:12Fifteen wolves
44:13will be trapped.
44:14Eleven will walk
44:15our lie alive.
44:16She lowered her hand.
44:17The arena was silent.
44:18Three prophecies.
44:20All precise.
44:21All verifiable.
44:22All devastating.
44:24Selina turned to Lyra.
44:25Your turn,
44:26little fraud.
44:27Lyra didn't close her eyes.
44:29She didn't raise her voice.
44:31She just smiled.
44:33I only need one.
44:37The arena roared with laughter.
44:41One prophecy
44:42against my three?
44:44The oracle's voice
44:46doesn't take shortcuts, sweetheart.
44:48Everyone knows that.
44:49The council handlers behind her
44:51exchanged satisfied glances.
44:53The robe shifted
44:55in the arena wind.
44:57Lyra walked
44:57to the center
44:58of the stone floor.
44:59You're very good at this,
45:00Selina.
45:01Your voice has the exact tremble
45:03of a real oracle.
45:05Your eyes get that faraway look
45:06at exactly the right moment.
45:08You've practiced for years.
45:11But you missed something.
45:15Real oracle prophecies
45:17come from pain.
45:18You can't fake
45:19six years of hunger.
45:21You can't fake
45:21silver burns.
45:22You can't fake
45:24watching a boot
45:25come at your chest
45:25and knowing,
45:26really knowing,
45:27in your bones
45:28that no one
45:29is coming to save you.
45:30Your prophecies are polished.
45:32Mine are paid for.
45:34Let me tell you all
45:35who Selina Morwen
45:36really is.
45:37She's not the oracle.
45:39She's a captive.
45:41The council of shadows
45:41trafficked her
45:42when she was three years old,
45:43same as Vance
45:44trafficked sixteen pups.
45:45They've been training her
45:46ever since.
45:47She's not their weapon.
45:50She's their prisoner.
45:53Lies!
45:54The blood shackle
45:55on your wrist, Selina.
45:57The one under
45:58your silver bracelet.
45:59The one that shocks you
46:01every time you try
46:02to speak your own words
46:03instead of theirs.
46:05Show them.
46:12We're leaving.
46:13Now.
46:20The trial's not over.
46:21I still have my prophecy.
46:30The council of shadows
46:32will fall tonight.
46:34Not in a week.
46:35Not in a month.
46:37Tonight.
46:40Thirty seconds passed.
46:42Nothing happened.
46:43That's your grand prophecy?
46:45They'll fall tonight?
46:47Vague.
46:48Cheap.
46:49Exactly what a fraud would say.
46:51The chat erupted
46:52across every screen.
46:54High tribunal unseals
46:54three pages of council records.
46:56Names exposed.
46:57Accounts frozen.
46:58Council headquarters raided.
47:0047 detained.
47:01Continental Bank
47:02free to 400 million
47:03council assets.
47:04Sixty seconds.
47:06Still nothing.
47:07The handlers laughed
47:08and straightened their robes
47:10as if they had already won.
47:13Lyra didn't move.
47:15The oracle's voice
47:16was still humming
47:17in her throat.
47:17Vibrating like a tuning fork
47:20that had struck
47:21something deep underground.
47:23Then all five went off at once.
47:26A discordant chorus
47:27fell in the silent arena.
47:30Handler one snatched his phone
47:32and read the screen.
47:33Every screen flickered
47:35to a breaking news bank.
47:37State of emergency
47:38declared national kerfow imposed.
47:40Martial law implemented.
47:42I will implying curses.
47:44Mass arrests begin.
47:45Breaking high tribunal unseals.
47:48300 pages of council records.
47:51Names exposed.
47:53Accounts frozen.
47:55More notifications poured in.
47:57Council headquarters raided.
47:5947 detained.
48:01Continental Bank freezes
48:03400 million in council assets.
48:06Three minutes after Lyra's prophecy,
48:10the first name appeared.
48:11By the fifth minute,
48:13every council member
48:14had been outed
48:15by their own alphas.
48:17By the tenth,
48:18the council was a crime scene.
48:21The handlers stood frozen.
48:25The news stream was still running.
48:2760 million viewers watched
48:29a six-year-old girl
48:30pull a 17-year-old fake oracle
48:32to her feet.
48:33Did she just forgive her?
48:35She exposed the crime
48:36and saved the victim
48:38in the same breath.
48:39Not an oracle.
48:40That's a luna.
48:41Handler two,
48:42still pinned under cousin,
48:43spat blood.
48:44The council has existed
48:46for 300 years.
48:48You cut off one head.
48:50But your customer list
48:51is now public.
48:52She pointed at the screens
48:54where the tribunal's
48:55document release
48:56was scrolling.
48:57You can't rebuild
48:57when everyone knows
48:58who shocked at your story.
49:00Selina stood beside Lyra,
49:02still shaking.
49:04Lyra asked if I knew
49:05what real prophecy felt like.
49:08I didn't.
49:10Until now.
49:13You will spend
49:14the rest of your life alone.
49:17Everyone who ever said
49:18they loved you
49:19will walk away.
49:20And on your last night
49:21you will understand
49:22exactly what you did.
49:27What's that?
49:29That was real.
49:31The moonless arena,
49:32which had not seen
49:33moonlight in three centuries.
49:35Filled with silver
49:37as the cloud cover
49:38split open
49:39that night,
49:4047 handlers
49:41were arrested.
49:42But in the chaos
49:43of the raids,
49:44one handler
49:45slipped through
49:46the perimeter
49:46in his satchel.
49:48Hidden among
49:48old warrants
49:49and blood contracts,
49:51he carried
49:51the original
49:52birth record
49:53of Lyra's
49:54silver peak madness,
49:55with the name
49:56crossed out
49:57and replaced
49:58in fresh ink.
50:00The handler
50:01who escaped
50:01was named
50:02Orson Cade.
50:03He had been
50:04counsel for
50:0443 years.
50:06He was the one
50:07who kept
50:07the backup records,
50:08the ones
50:09even the inner circle
50:10didn't know existed.
50:11Azimir's hunters
50:13cornered him
50:13in a train station
50:15three hours
50:15after the moonless
50:17arena broadcast.
50:18Open it.
50:19Kate's hands
50:20shook as old badly.
50:25Inside,
50:26a single file
50:27yellowed with age.
50:29A hospital birth record
50:31from 22 years ago.
50:33Silver peak
50:34pack maternity ward.
50:36Azimir stared
50:37at the crossed out name.
50:39His face
50:39went stone still.
50:44This is my brother's
50:45signature below
50:46the black ink.
50:48Not his signature.
50:51His seal.
50:52The seal was forged
50:53by the wolf
50:54who stood beside him
50:55every day for eight years.
50:56The same wolf
50:57who switched the pups.
50:58The same wolf
50:59who fed Selene's location
51:01to the council
51:02after she started
51:03investigating
51:05the trafficking network.
51:08You want to know
51:09who stole your niece,
51:10Reaper?
51:11Ask your father
51:12who he exiled
51:1312 years ago.
51:14Ask him why.
51:16Azimir's claws
51:17punched through
51:18the satchel.
51:19He didn't need to ask.
51:21He already knew the name.
51:23Lyra watched his face.
51:25She had never seen
51:26her uncle look like this.
51:28Dorian Vos.
51:32Our former beta.
51:35The wolf who stood
51:36at my father's right hand
51:37for 20 years.
51:39Where is he now?
51:42He's the head strategist
51:43for the Iron Flick Pack.
51:45And he just watched
51:46the entire council trial
51:47on livestream.
51:50Iron Fang territory
51:51was a fortress
51:53carved into a granite mountain
51:55300 miles north.
51:58Kazimir's SUV
51:59pulled up to the gate
52:00at noon.
52:05Malus met them
52:06in the great hall.
52:08Kazlin.
52:09This had better be good.
52:11It's the worst thing
52:12you'll hear this decade.
52:14He laid the birth record,
52:16the council ledger,
52:17and Dorian Vos's
52:19sealed exile file
52:20on the stone table.
52:21Your strategist
52:22was Silverpoke Beta
52:24before my father
52:25exiled him.
52:25He switched my niece
52:27in the maternity room.
52:28He sold her mother
52:29to the council.
52:31He fed Vaints
52:32the trafficking pipeline data.
52:34Maddox's hands
52:35curled into fists.
52:36Dorian!
52:37My hall!
52:39Now!
52:40Dorian Vos walked in.
52:42Surely you don't believe.
52:44I didn't come
52:45to accuse you.
52:46I came to let you
52:47do it yourself.
52:50Tell Alpha Maddox
52:52exactly what you did.
52:54I switched the pup.
52:56I sold the heir's
52:58location to the council.
53:00The stone table cracked.
53:02You advised my council.
53:05You trained my soldiers.
53:07And you came here
53:08with a lie!
53:10Maddox ripped
53:11the iron fan crest
53:12from Dorian's uniform.
53:14You are banished.
53:17Dorian fell to his knees.
53:19He grabbed
53:19for Lyra's ankle.
53:21I was loyal
53:22to the old ways.
53:24The Magnus line
53:26was weak.
53:27Lyra didn't step back.
53:29You sold children.
53:31You sold me.
53:33But every wolf
53:34who tried to destroy me
53:36is now in a cage
53:37or a grave.
53:40Thank you for confessing
53:42in front of witnesses.
53:43Dorian screamed
53:44as guards
53:45dragged him out.
53:47Maddox looked
53:48at Lyra.
53:49He knelt.
53:50Iron fit stands
53:51with silver heck.
53:52Now and always.
53:53Lyra walked
53:54to the edge
53:55of the mountain.
53:56Ready to go home?
53:58Home.
53:59I like that word.
54:04Six months later,
54:06Moonlight Shrouds
54:07Silver Peak Manor.
54:09The old kitchen
54:10has been turned
54:11into a cozy space.
54:15I'm wrapped
54:16in a blanket.
54:18Mom and Grandpa
54:19sit beside me.
54:21Every single soul
54:23across the whole continent
54:24will show up tomorrow.
54:26Every alpha.
54:28Every luna.
54:30Every pup
54:31you've ever saved.
54:33You get what I'm saying, right?
54:35I know.
54:40Maddox Ironhead
54:41flew in the 12 pups
54:43his pack rescued
54:44last week
54:44from a Shadow Council
54:46outpost himself.
54:48He called them
54:49a gift of gratitude.
54:51I've rotted away
54:52in this cell
54:53for six years.
54:55Every single day
54:56I repeated
54:57the same mantra
54:58to myself.
54:58Hold on.
54:59She's still out there.
55:01She's still alive.
55:02Just hold on.
55:09Then one day
55:10I overheard
55:11guards murmuring
55:13a little girl
55:14with the prophet's voice
55:16unraveling
55:17the Shadow Council's
55:18prophecies
55:19one by one.
55:21Right then
55:22I knew it was you.
55:24I've got a few things
55:25I want to say
55:26but if I open my mouth
55:28this will be
55:28the fourth time
55:29I cry today
55:30and Kazmir
55:31will tease me
55:32about it
55:32for a thousand years
55:33straight.
55:35Absolutely.
55:39Six years ago
55:41locked in a cage
55:42at home
55:45Vesper
55:46burnt my skin
55:47with cigarette bites.
55:50Theatrice held my head
55:52under water
55:54and Garak sold me
55:56to pay off his gambling debts.
56:04I truly believed
56:05I was nothing
56:06but a living curse.
56:08My mother
56:09at my left
56:10my grandfather
56:11at my right
56:12tomorrow
56:14folk from every corner
56:16of the continent
56:16will gather
56:17to honor
56:18a pack
56:19that took in
56:19a stray mutt
56:20and named her
56:22their luna.
56:25I have one last prophecy
56:28the silver peak pack
56:29shall stand
56:30for a thousand years
56:32every pup
56:33who knocks upon
56:34these doors
56:34will be given a home
56:36every wolf
56:37told they are worthless
56:38will learn the truth
56:39of who they are
56:40and what of the little girl
56:42locked in a cage
56:42in the kitchen
56:43the one scarred
56:45by silver burns
56:46with fractured ribs
56:47who owned nothing
56:48but a voice
56:48that saw far too much
56:50she'll be fine.
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