The werewolf curse

: Echoes of

in the breeze like laughter, and smoke curled gently from the rebuilt longhouse. Mara stood barefo

r once, f

d Mara was learning to lis

e young Bound from the north, retu

ar the border," he sa

within moments. Riven was already there,

ven said. "I would've fe

"We investiga

comed them now, no longer recoiling from their scent. Leaves parted at their pa

hey fo

s if by invisible claws. In the center, a pool of water had

Riven muttered.

ng out with one hand. The Bone Sigil

whisper

faint-like wind thro

lou

oices, overla

h and flame... the first

Wolves-towering, monstrous-ripped through villages while armored figures cried out in for

Sera

r. W

gered bac

t her. "What

Mara whispered.

wroot, the co

asn't the Order. This was somet

"The place Davi found-tha

nd sealed tombs. Of the First Packs, long-lost ancestors of the Boun

hey forgot how to shift back," Riven added qui

waking up," Kae

Sigil, then at the counc

urted,

f this is what I think it is, we don't want to p

rolled across the grass, and no birds sang here. Stones jutted from the earth-grave marke

pping at a mound taller than

, though she held it

t again,"

proached, the

rough the earth-not ab

a v

th ears, but

of bone. You wear the cu

ze. "Who

"I am what you fled. I am what Sera

her knees. "

d Mara. "Get o

"I'm not here to awaken yo

le

ves have forgotten how to bite. But

igil flare

en-it

o, one half crumbling to dust, the other e

l was that?"

o you. The rest waits, buried. But beware, little wolf... the Bou

, si

ist c

ground

need to prepare. Whatever this

ale. "It's onl

the Bone Sigil in her palm. It no longer pulsed-it hummed, soft an

, closing the

hanging,"

kno

o wh

nted gold in the candlelight

took he

r. One the next ho

nod

de, the w

neath the hills, some

it