Chapter 27 The Ghost Of The Shadow-guard

• The lower courtyard of the Glacier Citadel was a graveyard of broken ice and silver debris.
• As the rebel Frost-Wolves surged past, Anna paused at the base of the Great Staircase. Her "Black Sun" aura was still humming, a cold, dark radiance that turned the falling snow into gray ash before it could touch her. She looked at Valaria, who stood opposite the fallen Champion, Ivar.
• "Go, Anna," Valaria growled, her voice a sharp edge of steel. "He’s mine. If I don't finish this, I'll never be able to look a Lycan in the eye again."