Moonlit Blood

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Fangs Behin

ts of the dead. Seraphina moved swiftly and silently, the hem of her dark cloak brushing the cold floor. She knew these halls

ancient dead of her bloodline lay entombed in stone and silence. Here, no guards patrolled

he had once brokered a peace between her kind and the wolves of the north, centuries before the Treaty of Black Hollow had even been imagined. Her

phina whispered to the stone

ar chamber. It was a battle plan: troop movements, ambush points, and one red circle dr

ging with triumph. "We strike before the next full moon. Their defenses will fal

r silence masking the storm inside

ld betr

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linked beneath obsidian chandeliers. Vampires danced in spirals of silk an

, her cloak pulled tight, her face unreadable. She had learned lo

s silver goblet raised. "To the fall of Eldergrove!" he called

the nobles c

cross the hall. He smiled-but it did not reach his eyes. He

. "Join your family. Tonight i

ed her head in mock respect and took the goblet he offered. Blood-fresh and warm-

quietly, leaning clos

of our people,

r actions. You've seen their claws, thei

eyes like twin moons. "And w

ltered for a hear

ve quickly. The stolen parchment now rested in her sleeve. She would escape before sunrise, fly

the plans-if she could show them the truth-perhaps there wa

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on her shoulder. The wind howled through the mountains, but she felt no cold. She had remove

g the scroll to its leg. "Find the one calle

ched into the sky, vanishing in

She thought of the boy in Eldergrove, the one Kael had found holding the wooden wolf. S

o the night, her wings of shadow unfol

he thought, but I will end it in t

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