**Gaia’s POV**

The battlefield stretched before us like a sea of chaos under a blood-red dawn. Golden Moon’s forces poured across the neutral plain in disciplined waves, their night-sea blue banners snapping in the cold wind. Rose Heart’s golden warriors stood shoulder to shoulder with me, their howls rising like thunder. I stood at the front line beside Astrein, my glacier-white wolf form already shimmering at the edges of my skin, ready to burst free. The silver poison from my ...