Malrik POV

I hadn’t expected the claim to hit me like that. I’d listened to legends, leaned into tales from warriors and elders who swore the bond changed everything but no single story, no handful of words, prepared me for what Dravina and I had just become.

We weren’t merely bound. We were braided together. Wolves and souls and everything that made us ourselves folded into one another and forged something new. In the quiet of my mind I saw her wolf: pure white with a streak of grey ...