Mag-log inThe Cost of the LockSaxaThe clearing crashes back into focus around us. Cold air burns my lungs.Snow.Trees.The tear splitting open the clearing and the mountain.Eirik kneeling in front of me with one hand gripping my shoulder hard enough to hurt.“Saxa.”His voice sounds far away.“You disappeared.”I blink.“What?”“You both did,” Ingrid says.Her face is pale beneath the moonlight. “You just—stopped moving.”Beside me Elias sways dangerously. “Apparently I hate magical visions.”Kaia catches his arm before he can fall over.“How long?”“Thirty seconds maybe,” Eirik answers.“It felt longer,” Elias mutters.It felt like hours. My gaze drifts toward the mountain.toward the place where she waits beneath it.The first weaver.Not a monster.Not a god.Just a woman.One who made a choice thousands of years ago and has been paying for it ever since.The realization settles heavily in my chest. Kasper is watching us carefully now. “What did she show you?”I meet his eyes, he alread
The Voice in the ThreadsSaxaThe words hang in the air, not loud, not shouted.And somehow every living thing in the valley hears it anyway.The creatures freeze, the wolves freeze, even the wind seems to stop moving through the trees. Beside me, Elias goes completely still, his fingers tightening painfully around mine. “You heard that too?” he whispers.But I can’t answer. Because the voice isn’t gone. It’s still there, not speaking, but present.Like standing in a room with someone you can’t see. The mountain hum beneath us, slow, steady, waiting.The threads around us pulse and the voice returns immediately.Not aloud.Inside.‘You carry the key.’The words slam into my chest hard enough to steal my breath.Elias jerks beside me, his eyes widen.“That wasn’t for everyone.”No. It wasn’t.The voice spoke to us. The twins.They keys.Across the clearing Kasper sees our expressions change. His face hardens immediately. “What did it say to you?”Neither of us answer. The pressure b
The Last ChainSaxaThe earth erupts. Snow, stone, and frozen dirt blast into the air as the clearing buckles beneath us.For one horrifying second, I think the entire mountain might come down on us.Eirik tackles me sideways. The impact knocks the breath from my lungs just as a jagged section of earth explodes where I’d been standing.Behind us, Ingrid yells. “TREE!!”A pine crashes into the clearing, its roots torn completely from the ground.The valley has become a center for chaos.Wolves scrambling.Threads whipping through the air like living lightning. The tears in the earth widening by the second.And beneath it all—Something is trying to climb out.My wolf surges forward instantly.Protect. Survive. Fight. But none of those instincts know what to do with us. Because this isn’t an enemy. It’s a catastrophe. Beside me Elias screams. The sound cuts through everything.I whirl toward him.His body is suspended six inches above the ground. My heart stops.“ELIAS!”The threads su
The Thing BelowSaxaThe mountain groans. Not the sharp cracking sounds from before, not tremors. This sound is deeper. Ancient stone shifting against ancient stone somewhere far beneath the valley floor. The entire clearing vibrates beneath us.Snow dancing across the ground in tiny bursts as the threads pulse brighter around my body. Every creature remains kneeling, their silver-eyed heads bowed toward the mountain. Toward whatever just spoke inside my head and said ‘mine.’My pulse pounds violently. The word still echoes through me.Not in my ears, but inside my bones.Mine. Eirik crouches beside me instantly, one hand gripping my shoulder hard enough to ground me. “Saxa..”I blink.His face sharpens back into focus. The cold air. The snow. The creatures.Reality slams back into place all at once.But the pressure beneath the mountain remains.Watching, waiting.Elias is breathing hard beside me now, too hard.The glowing veins spreading beneath his skin have reache
Beneath the MountainSaxaSomething beneath us wakes.Not metaphorically, not emotionally, not in some distant magical shift humming quietly through the system.Something real.The moment the convergence locks into place between Elias and I, the entire valley reacts like a living thing inhaling for the first time in centuries.The threads pulse again, just once.Hard.Every glowing line beneath the snow flashes blinding white, racing through the forest and into the mountain faster than lightning.And then—Everything stops.No tremors.No roaring.No movement.Silence crashes over the clearing so suddenly it makes my ears ring.Every creature freezes, every wolf, every thread.The entire world holds still. Beside me Elias goes rigid, his fingers tightening painfully around mine. His pupils blow wide as the glyph beneath his skin begins to burn brighter than I’ve ever seen it.“Saxa,” he whispers.But his voice sounds wrong. Distant.Like he’s hearing something I can’t.The mountain a
The Valley ChangesSaxaNo one moves after the creature speaks.The valley seems to freeze around us. Snow drifts slowly through the clearing, glowing faintly silver where the threads burn beneath the ground.The malformed wolf lies motionless at the creature's feet, his breath ragged but growing more steady.Alive.That should feel like a relief, but it doesn’t.Because the thing kneeling beside him just fixed something none of us understood.And it did effortlessly.Eirik steps forward carefully. Every muscle in his body is tense.Protective.Ready to kill if he has to.The creature turns its silver eyes toward him.Not hostile.Just watching.Learning. The threads around its hands dim slowly.Gran drops beside the injured wolf immediately, her hands trembling as she checks his pulse.“He’s stable,” she whispers.Ingrid stares at the creature. “You just… healed him?”The creature tilts its head slightly.“he … tearing.”Its voice sounds smoother now.Less broken.Like every word tea
Beneath the SurfaceSaxaThe sun filtered through the branches in long skeletal beams, and the wind carried whispers I couldn’t quite make out. It wasn’t cold, but I shivered anyway. He was waiting exactly where I thought he’d be—at the edge of the path, half-shadowed, half-light.Eirik.He looked
What Lurks BeneathSaxaSleep didn’t come easily that night, but then again why would it? I lay awake long after the house went silent, long after Gran’s soft steps faded and the wind outside settles into a steady blow. My body was still buzzing, part adrenaline, part whatever the hell was happenin
Between the Teeth of FateSaxaThe woods were quieter than they should have been.No wind.No birdsongs.Just that creeping kind of deafening silence that sinks deep into your bones and makes your instincts twitch. I stepped over a patch of moss, my boots barely making a sound beside the crunch of l
Saxa Darkness wrapped around me like a heavy cloak, but beneath it, a faint glow pulsed—a rhythm steady and strong, like a heartbeat. I was standing in an attic I hadn’t seen before, thick with dust and shadows. In the center of the room sat a wooden chest, bathed in golden light and beckoning me.







