LUCAS POV:
For days, I had sensed a growing unease among my people. It began with subtle changes—a whispered fear here, an unspoken sorrow there. But it was Lena's transformation that truly alarmed me. Once full of life, her laughter silenced, her eyes shadowed with an unfathomable grief.
I could not stand by and watch as my pack was consumed by this unseen darkness. I had to act. It was then that I turned to the one person who might have answers—the witch Priestess, a woman whose knowledge and power had always been a source of awe and, at times, fear within my pack.
I summoned the Priestess to my sacred meeting place, a clearing deep in the heart of the forest. The trees here were ancient, their gnarled branches forming a natural cathedral that had witnessed countless rituals and gathe
