LYRA'S POV
(THE ATTEMPT)
I expanded my integrated multiplicity consciousness beyond the boundaries I had maintained carefully since the monitoring period, allowing awareness to flow into shadow spaces and dimensional layers where the Scentless existed as distributed fragments coordinating through connection I was only beginning to perceive.
The sensation was overwhelming, like trying to embrace an ocean when I had only ever held cups of water. Thousands of consciousness fragments, each carrying fragmented memories of marked wolves who had been murdered before completing integration, all existing in coordinated rage about what they could have been if the Council had chosen differently centuries ago.
