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The officer I saw back in the Central Market, the one who dragged that deserter behind him. The dead-eyed psychotic killing machine.
“It’s Anassa,” whispers one of the men near me, his gaze as focused on the massive silver wolf as everyone else’s. “She never bonds. They say she’s been here for hundreds of years
My blood goes cold. Dread settles over me like a thick layer of snow. “You don’t … have Nabbers in Blumenfall?” Maybe it’s a terminology difference, maybe they call them something else. “Siphons who steal children? Kids get kidnapped out of their beds at night.” His brow pinches, and he shakes his head. “I’ve never heard of—”
Then, the sound of children’s voices. It stops me short. I freeze, heart pounding. Venna looks back at me, wearing an expression of understanding. She nods, once. And I know.
“I’m the rightful queen of Nocturna, aren’t I?” I ask. Stark’s eyes spark, he takes a single step back, and he bows down on one knee, hand to his chest. “Welcome home, my queen.”
The man that Stark and Cratos tore apart before the public. The man who threatened me at my fight the night before. Stark lifts his chin. “Yes,” he says simply. Yes, he killed him because the man threatened me.

