CHAPTER 123: disappointed

Back at the Wolfsong Dominion pack.

Cassius’ POV~~

It's been more than fifteen hours since Max and the warriors left with healer Aric in search of the moon goddess. My head shifted to the window, and the sun creeped in, painting a skinny line on the dusty floor. Same as yesterday. Same as every day for six months. This bed, these walls—they're my whole world now. My muscles, once strong, yell every time I try to move.

Will it ever stop? This weakness, this feeling like a trapped animal? Healers came, mumbled stuff, and left me with bitter concoctions that did little more than lull me into a restless sleep. But there's someone that Max had told me, a story carried on the wind—a woman deep in the woods, a witch, they say.

Witches used to scare me—those stories of hags and dark rituals. Now, it's like a light in the dark, a promise of something more. They say she can fix what's broken—what the healers and shamans couldn't. Doubt stings, like a tiny snake in my chest. Can I trust these w