The moment she touched him, white light exploded from her body, sending a shockwave through the keep.
It hurt like a bitch and surprised her just as hard. A scream cut out of her mouth before she could kill it.
She heard glass shatter, which she assumed was the windows of the keep. Then she heard the yells of Dark Fae.
"Pull her off the dragon, brothers—"
"The moonpussy is on the ground and ready! Spread—"
"Bad vessel! Bad. Bad girl! I will still breed you—"
"My spine is visible from the outside and my wings are gone!"
"Your wings were ugly anyways."
The fact that they kept roasting one another mid-disintegration was either comedy gold or the most fucked-up thing she’d witnessed tonight. Both leaderboards were stacked.
"I have been reduced to a head and a torso. I maintain my position in the queue. First scent, first penetration—"
"Brother, run. Don’t look at the light! Don’t look at the—"
"I can’t stop looking at the light. It’s beautiful. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever—"
The light surged a second time and left her body the way a scream leaves a throat. Another scream followed it out of her mouth, so the comparison was accurate.
She tried not to put her full weight on him. He was bleeding. He was stabbed. Something still forced her down until her head was pressed to his chest and her body refused every command to move.
"I still call DIBS! One pump for—"
"DORIN just became mist! I just saw it happen!"
"To the portals, brothers! Run! My wings have melted. It’s too late for me—"
"Brothers, I want you to know that I love all of you and I called dibs."
"My seed is gone. The light sterilized me. Now I am turning into particles."
"Same."
"Me too."
The light continued flowing through her body, pouring from her onto Kael.
She heard Gavyn Holt shouting commands.
"MORE INCOMING!"
Her body unlocked all at once. She pushed herself off Kael and looked down at him.
His eyes were still closed.
"Don’t you dare," she whispered. "Don’t you dare die in my Keep."
Her palm moved on its own, pressing onto his chest, and she felt more of the light flow from her into him.
Keeping her palm on him, her head moved on its own. The light was controlling her again, and wanted to survey the damage. She let it.
Chaos was unfolding around them. White light washed over the Keep like sunlight, surrounding every wolf.
Bodies, ash, mist that used to be a person named Dorin, glowing wolves, burning portals, and the faint smell of something she refused to identify. This Keep was going to need a renovation and a goddamn exorcism in that order.
More Dark Fae were pouring from the portal but about half were evaporating before they got near.
She watched one reach for Gavyn Holt’s arm and immediately turn into ash. He looked at his arm. Looked at the ash on the ground. Said absolutely nothing because there were no words.
The pack understood. The light was coming from one place.
"Don’t let them touch her! EVERY FIGHTER, GUARD THE PRINCESS. NOTHING GETS THROUGH," Gavyn commanded.
She had to admit. Kael and Tyler promoted the right guy. He was overlooked by her father, no question.

Show me, she thought to the light.

Your turn. Hit the largest portal in the center.
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