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Inside the city, a child watching from a window would later tell her mother she saw “ghosts with teeth.” That was the legend Shen wanted. Not a general. Not an army. A nightmare with a pack structure.

General Shen stood atop the ridge, his single eye gleaming like a chip of black glass. Below, the imperial city of Jinsha glowed like a lantern in the winter dark—unaware, complacent, soft. He raised one hand, and the army behind him stilled instantly. Five thousand men. Five thousand wolves. No one spoke. No one howled. The wolves, massive northern greys with eyes the color of old silver, sat motionless among the soldiers, their hackles raised not in aggression, but in anticipation. They had been raised together, man and beast, since pup and recruit. They shared wounds, meals, and the same cold hatred for the empire that had exiled them. shen's wolf army

“Tonight,” Shen whispered, his voice carrying no further than his lieutenants, “we do not conquer. We remind.” Inside the city, a child watching from a

The drums did not beat for Shen’s Wolf Army. There was no brass fanfare, no silk banners snapping in the wind. Instead, there was only the soft, terrible whisper of hundreds of paws on frozen earth, and the low, guttural rhythm of men breathing as one. A nightmare with a pack structure

Shen’s lips curled into something that was not quite a smile. “That men can be unmade. But a wolf pack? It only grows stronger when you cut it.”