Elmielos

"Hi, yes you aren't dreaming, it's the chubby Kelly," I say inwardly as I see the unhappy face expression of Jason who is disheartened. 

The guests laugh at us. They call our couple all sort of names. "The prince charming and the pancakes' eater Kelly" is one I can sadly remember."

"I, Jason Bentley of the South pack, reject you Kelly Thompson as my mate and the Luna Queen," he declared fiercely.

***
Kelly Thompson, an eighteen-year-old curvaceous and wolfless she-wolf, has been quietly admiring Jason Bentley, the heir apparent to the throne of the dominant South pack, for a number of years.

Unfortunately for Kelly, she doesn't get the same attention in return from Alpha heir Jason, as the handsome daughter of his old father's Gammas, Betty Nord, is already the love of the pack's future Alpha. But, the plump Kelly has an advantage over the skinny Betty because of a strong vow made by Jason's father, the Alpha King Don Bentley, that his son will marry the daughter of his Betas who gave their lives two years ago in a fight against the North pack's fiercest adversaries in order to preserve the life of the Alpha heir.

But clearly, nothing goes as smoothly as Kelly imagines.

The Rejected Curvy Luna Queen

The Mirror City is a labyrinth of lies. 


Its spires are needles of polished obsidian, their surfaces reflecting not the sky, but fragments of our past—Eden’s laughter, Veyd’s smirk, Lumi’s silver scars. The streets are paved with shards of glass that chime like wind chimes in a storm. Jara walks beside me, her limp less pronounced now, the silver flower tucked into her bandages glowing faintly. The shadow inside me is restless, its hunger sharpened by the city’s resonant hum. 


**“This place feels alive,”** Jara mutters, her rifle scanning the reflections. **“Like it’s watching us.”** 


The shadow stirs. *It is. And it’s hungry.* 


A figure steps from a mirror—a man in tattered Verse armor, his face obscured by a mask of liquid mercury. 


**“Welcome, Stormbearer,”** he says, his voice layered with static. **“The Veil has been waiting.”** 
