The inner residential ward of the Fortress of Iron and Ash was a sanctuary designed to shield the pack's most precious vulnerability: its newborn litters. Surrounded by double-thick walls of basalt and insulated with heavy cedar paneling, the nursery was maintained at a constant, soothing warmth by subterranean hot-spring conduits that ran beneath the stone floor. Heavy sheepskin rugs, hand-woven wool blankets, and carved pine mobiles depicting running wolves and…
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