Kael stood at the edge of the treeline, breath fogging the air despite the summer warmth. His hands were no longer trembling. That was the problem. For weeks, the tremor had been his anchor—proof that the thing inside him was still a passenger, not the driver. But now, stillness had settled into his bones like a second skeleton. Calm before the claw.
Kael smiled. It was not a human expression. It was something the face did when the thing beneath the face decided to wear it like a mask. Instinct Unleashed -Chapter 9- By Kind Nightmares
"I never left," Kael replied. "I just stopped pretending the cage had a lock." Kael stood at the edge of the treeline,
Chapter 9 ends not with a howl, but with the absence of one. Because the loudest roars are the ones that never leave the chest. And Kael had finally stopped fighting the quiet. For weeks, the tremor had been his anchor—proof