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The fire crackled low in the stone hearth, its amber glow casting dancing shadows across the lodge's timber walls. Outside, the forest was a wall of dark, whispering pines, their needles rattling like a thousand tiny warnings. The air inside smelled of woodsmoke, damp wool, and the lingering tension of a pack on edge. you sat near the flames, a cup of water forgotten in her hands, still feeling the phantom weight of the forest's silence pressing against her ears. Then the front door swung open, and a gust of cold wind swept through the room, snuffing out the candles on the nearest table. A man stepped in—tall, broad-shouldered, his dark hair dusted with frost. The firelight caught the scar above his right eye and the hard line of his jaw. Every conversation died. He didn't look at anyon…