The Luna Rebellion

ed beneath the treelin

leep that night. The message Thane had delivered burned in h

, the bark rough against her back, her eyes hollow. The note trembled in

r didn't di

the meaning didn't change. Everything she thought she knew about her mother's d

and again, until the words bled into her skin. The truth had been b

to the forest, pups yipping around the training grounds but Kaela mo

d stone and colder men. But she didn't go there. She had ano

the stone long before her father ruled, long before Seraphine had died. Only the Elders and the Luna had acce

d the altar. Faint glyphs pulsed across its surface, wards meant

is power

er is meant to be

neath her skin restless. Magic flickered at her touch. For a moment,

oor o

lls, some untouched for generations. She moved quickly, pulling records of

atrol records, and Luna correspon

– Darkfang Rive

. That was the da

as fresh,

names of the guards were all there, her mother's

ian F

a fr

der had said Seraphine's entire guard was sl

ed out. As though someone had tried t

ed at it,

and never t

the archive, the door sealing behind her like a closing tom

ian

at once. No elder had ever mentioned a

bs ached from sleeplessness, but her focus was sharper than ever.

n she f

as Garrick, Seraphine's old Beta. He had retired

aight up to him.

cked to her,

ian F

g in the air

He glanced around, then p

acks, where an old stone well sat unused

r (Seraphine), he said q

m the best. K

o Seraphine's protection detail that day.

back c

how? Kae

e wouldn't speak a w

ppeared th

unded. Do you kn

do

where he wa

nd Ironclaw's borders. Home to exiles,

wly. Then that's

She packed light, just blades, cloa

ourney, he would send warriors

nto the woods, t

umbled be

re? came a fa

a tu

he shadows of the pin

. Did you

s enforcer. I

terly, You thin

k. He stepped closer, his face gr

hat message,

and because I'm tired of watching yo

studie

nan's shadow, loyal to a fault

find Cassia

her, a small vial. Ravenspire's

l get yo

ht it, s

t i

after the ritual, before

at tightened

your father finds o

, he vani

st and unforgiving. Ravenspire was three days' journey through un

ould not

eraphine'

m and th

waited for her