Chapter 55: The Power of Connection
Lily POV
The ground cracked beneath my feet as Brock crashed into the falling Sacred Grove, his arms reaching desperately for Caleb and me. I caught his hand just as we all started falling toward the black pit that had opened where the old stones used to be.
"Got you!" Brock grunted, his other hand grabbing Caleb’s shirt.
But we were still falling, and the hole seemed to go down forever. Panic shot through me until I remembered something Elder Iris had taught me about the Triple Moon power - it wasn’t just for healing individual wolves. It was for healing ties between wolves.
I closed my eyes and reached out with my mind, not toward the darkness below us, but toward every pack bond I could feel. The silver light inside me pulsed, searching for the invisible threads that linked wolf to wolf, pack to pack.
And I found them.
Even controlled by Morrigan’s shadow magic, the pack ties were still there. Buried deep, barely flickering, but living. Like candle flames in a hurricane, fighting not to go out.
"Hold on," I breathed, letting my Triple Moon power flow outward.
Instead of trying to fight Morrigan’s control directly, I began strengthening the natural ties between pack members. The bonds that made wolves want to protect each other, care for each other, choose each other’s health over their own comfort.