My Fated Mate Can Have Her

Chapter 302: Her Wolf

Violet

I scrambled forward as it went up through the opening.

I wore the pendant and began to climb when I reached the wall.

I hauled myself upward, my muscles screaming from everything I had already been through. The walls of the tunnel leading outside was very high.

I groaned and dug my fingers into the rocky jagged walls, pulling myself up quickly. My eyes never left the surface. It had gone so far.

I climbed faster, my pendant blazing against my chest.

I had come too far to lose it now.

The figure moved with no effort, and stopped near the very top of the opening.

Its featureless face turning toward me as if to make sure I was following, before rushing out into the opening and disappearing from sight.

No. No, no, no.

I sped up, dragging my body upwards.

My arms burned, my legs shook, and every part of my body ached from the swimming for just how long it had been. But I didn’t bother to stop or even slow down.

I finally reached the top and hauled myself up. Light exploded across my vision, and I found myself tumbling down a long slope. Dust kicked up around me, obscuring my vision and I spat out sand as I fell.

I collapsed onto solid ground, spitting out sand and blinking against the sudden overwhelming brightness. Heat pressed down on me from above. Actual heat from the sun, and the ground was hot too.

I was lying in sand.

I pushed myself up slowly, my vision swimming as it adjusted to the light.

I was looking at the actual sky.

I sat there for a long moment, stunned, and so happy.

I immediately remembered the figure of light and looked around, my breath catching in my throat.

Pink sand stretched out in every direction, rolling in gentle dunes that rose and fell like frozen waves. It was the same strange desert Bei and I had entered days ago. But this was somewhere deeper within it.

And rising from the sands, scattered across the landscape were ruined buildings.

My heart stopped.

Many of the structures had collapsed entirely, nothing but rubble half-buried beneath dunes of pink sand. Others stood at odd angles, tilting precariously as if they might topple at any moment.

Some had jagged glass edges at the top and sand had piled against walls and poured through broken windows, slowly swallowing what remained.

There were no paths, no streets, just sand. Sand filled every space between buildings.

This was it...?

I immediately noticed the figure of light drifting ahead of me and weaving between the half - buried structures.

Its glowing form was stark against the pale pink sand and I chased after it.

My body felt drained in a way I had never experienced before. Like something had been wrung out of me during the journey, leaving me hollow and weak. I walked on unsteady legs, my feet sinking into the soft pink sand with each step.

At the same time, I started drawing energy from the hot sun, and I felt a faint fear that I might have spent far longer than I thought underwater.

I shook the troubling thought off my mind as the figure led me deeper into the ruins.

I passed buildings that might once have been homes, their walls carved with patterns I couldn’t quite make out beneath the erosion. I passed larger structures that could have been temples or gathering halls. Their curved roofs collapsed inward, and their interiors were dark and filled with sand.

Everywhere I looked, I saw beautiful, terrible decay.

The figure stopped and hovered before a structure that was more intact than the others. It was a tower of pale stone, its walls still standing. The circular windows still held its shape even if the glass was long gone. Sand had piled against its base, but the upper levels remained exposed to the sky.

I approached slowly, my heart pounding.

The figure turned to face me.

For a long moment, we just looked at each other. Looking closely now, it looked like a female figure. It was as tall as I was and the frame...

A strange chill ran down my spine.

Before my suspicions could take root in my mind, the figure spoke up.

The voice came from inside my own head.

"Do not let us die out."

The words hit me like a blow to the chest. I staggered back, confused.

Before I could respond, the figure began to change.

The light condensed, shifted, reformed. The robes shortened and thickened. The tall slender shape compressed into something larger.

Seconds later, a monstrous wolf was standing before me.

I had never seen a wolf like it before.

Its white fur was luminous in the desert sun, and against that white background were patterns of gold that seemed to shift and shimmer as it breathed. The gold traced lines across its coat like constellations.

I collapsed to the ground, my heart slamming against my ribs.

I had felt this presence before during the eclipse...

The wolf didn’t move. It just watched me with eyes that held depths I couldn’t fathom.

I realised with startling clarity that the constant tug that had guided me for so many months had been from this wolf. And in its place was a warm inexplicable feeling that made me whole.

I had never once thought I had felt incomplete until now.

My syzygy clamoured and pulsed under my skin, those same veins of silver and gold threading through me, and I felt stronger and more powerful than I had ever been in my life.

It was as if a part of me that had always been missing had finally slotted into place.

Was this my wolf?

"Zephyr."

I went rigid.

The wolf’s voice had echoed in my head again.

The name was strangely familiar but I wasn’t certain I had never heard it before.

I pulled back, staring at the wolf. It stared, unblinking.

"Who is Zephyr?" I whispered, looking around.

"You are."

I went very still.

I didn’t understand.

What was it saying?

"That’s..." My voice came out hoarse. "That’s not my name."

The wolf went quiet for a few moments.

"What name were you given in this life?"

I opened my mouth. Closed it. My heart was racing, my mind struggling to catch up with what was happening.

What was it trying to say exactly?

"I... Violet," I finally managed. "My name is Violet."

A pause. The wolf’s eyes seemed to soften.

"Violet." It tested the word. "It suits you."

"I don’t understand," I whispered, trembling. "What do you mean by this life?"

The wolf’s ears flickered but it didn’t respond.

I suddenly remembered how I had died the first time and had woken up again. This voice and the other one were different, but...

"What is happening?" I whispered, pressing for information. "What do you mean?"

The wolf lifted its head and drew closer until it was standing directly in front of me. It was so large that I had to tilt my head back to meet its gaze.

I quickly got to my feet.

"Then I will show you."

Its eyes began to glow and it brightened until it was almost too painful to look at. I wanted to close my eyes, and look away, but I couldn’t move. The light expanded, filling my vision, and swallowing everything.

Then I was somewhere else.