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She heard the words on the wind, carried from her friend’s soul to hers.
Light it up Bryce.
And Bryce was laughing, laughing and sobbing as she yelled back across the lush plain and hills, ”Light it up, Danika!”
Wolfish laughter flowed to her. And then there was a spark of light by Danika’s shoulder, and Bryce knew that fire..
She blew a kiss to Lehabah.

”This will all be here when you’re ready,” Jesiba repeated, then motioned to the green hills beyond. ”We’ll all be here when you’re ready.”
Far out, on a distant hill, stood seven figures. Bryce knew them by shape, knew them by their heights and the glow around them.

❤️🥹

”But how did you know I’d wind up-”
”You’ve got one of the worst self-sacrificing streaks I’ve ever encountered,” Jesiba said. ”I had a feeling an intervention might be needed her today.” She peered up at the blue sky, and smiled to herself. ”Go home, Bryce. This will all be here when you’re ready.”

Home - he was home. Her ability to teleport to him had only proved that. Home wasn’t a place or a thing, but him. Wherever Hunt was…that was where home was. She’d find him across galaxies, if needed be.

Connor said to Ithan, ”You make me proud, you know. Every day before now, and every day after. Nothing you do will ever change that.”

”I know we have som shit to sort out still,” he said against her mouth, ”but…girlfriend, lover, whatever you want to be, I’m all in.”

”Hail Ithan,” Amelie said, loud enough for all to hear, ”Prime of the Valbaran Wolves.”