“Where is she?” I snap, my fury returning.
“She’s gone, doing her duty. Protecting her people.”
“I want to go there, to her,” I say to him and the All-Seer.
He raises his eyebrows. “You would give up immortality? Give up this life and your powers for her?”
“Yes!” I say at once.
The Luna Alpha rubs his chin, thinking it over. His long white hair blows in the wind, and he looks over his shoulder, his expression troubled.
“He followed,” he says to the All-Seer.
“I know,” she says, looking at me. “Say goodbye to the Alpha. He’s going to make sure she stays alive.”
“What?”
“That’s his job, to keep her alive until the right moment.”
I stare at them. “She’s in danger? Let me go, too. What do you mean, right moment? I’ll keep her safe!”
The All-Seer shakes her head. “It’s not your time.”
“Why is it not? Why can’t I go? I have searched for her for thousands of human years. I have loved her for every second of them.”
“Because if you go too soon, she dies,” the All-Seer says in exasperation.
“Why are you telling me this now?” I ask after a strangled pause.
“Because when I go, you won’t remember any of this. Everyone who came to speak to you will disappear from your mind.” She holds up a hand, interrupting me before I can speak. “You will remember at the right moment.”
The Luna Alpha smiles, and I see her in him.
“Goodbye, High Alpha. Do not fail.”
He smiles and steps out of sight. I turn around, checking everywhere, but he’s gone.
The All-Seer stares at me, but I don’t think she’s waiting for me.
I shift into a person and hold the Ravage Wolf back, his teeth too close to my face.
“You’re her twin!” I shout, slamming him to the ground. “You’re the oldest, the strongest, kick this piece of crap out of you!”
Walker howls, and the agony is both his and the wolf's. She ruined him. That was the evil of it. She took the oldest, most beautiful alpha, and she put evil in him and made him do evil. I don’t think he’s ever going to be the same.
He’s never going to go home.
“You fell, didn’t you? You gave it all up to save her?”
In the red of the Ravage Wolf’s eyes, I see my answer.
“Damn you, Walker. Not like this. You’re not going like this.”
He rushes around the corner, glowing, his dark hair flowing around him like an inky sheet, but he’s beautiful.
“Omega Stars,” the All-Seer says in frustration.
“Send me with him.”
