DRAKKAR

My whole body tensed at the beasts’ sounds, but before I could defend my family, I saw how they lowered themselves on their paws toward them…

No, not toward them...toward him.

I looked back at my pup in his mother’s arms, her fingers playing in his fur, unaware she was surrounded by predators.

His red eyes fixed on me again, and they no longer looked like those of a newborn just arrived in this world.

Something hid in their depths, an intense gleam, full of higher power, of wisdom, of divinity…

"Drakkar… love, what’s wrong?" Lyra’s voice pulled me from that vision, which vanished from my mind as quickly as it came.

Had I imagined it?

"I saw it too." Khalum spoke to me, serious. Then it was “real.”

"Ly… they showed me something strange…" I told her what had been revealed to me.

She went quiet in my arms while the knot slowly went down.

"Maybe you’ll get pregnant from this," I said, and felt her shiver, her back going rigid. "You don’t want to? But you told me…"

"I do want to, m