EP9 - The Well Takes Payment

At the Cursed Well, a hidden offering turns the returned coin into inherited debt. Grave-wolves rise when broken ritual law is touched. Kael enters controlled partial form to hold them from Mara. When another creature threatens Liora, protective terror triggers her own pale partial form; altered senses reveal the safe boundary route. The well then steals Liora's voice to demand Mara's hidden name, but Liora resists and interrupts the answer. Mara accepts the coin rather than pass its claim onward. Grave-wolves recede. Liora suppresses shaken; Kael returns human. The supernatural debt now demands immediate public judgment from all three clans.