The Alpha of the Fifth Moon

f the obelisk glade, cold earth pressed to

ra was

faint hum of energy still buzzing thro

that didn't belong to this lifetime-memories of fire-lit halls, silver

ly. It didn't like being

eeded

mind-touched by a dead moon goddess reborn-he walked strai

nly the old bloodlines could sense. Thirteen Elders sat in thrones arranged in a crescent,

ost venomous of them all. "You barged in withou

pends. Is believing in the Fift

er went d

rd, her pale eyes narrow

o me. She touched me. She showed me what we were before all

ed. There are rituals to cleanse

alls. "She was Luna. And I think I was her Alpha before I

in their seats. Some looked

descended the steps toward Kael. "You saw the Fift

ael growled. "And I'

el smile. "Then we must burn

f the room-elite guardwolves, cloaked in silver and moonligh

our own?" Elder Va

ld fight the entire moon if

th

shi

ly. Not l

ic. His form twisted into something new, not just fur and fang, but armor and

sitated. Just

lunged-he flipped them. The third never made it. He roared

ked. And that wa

he was afraid, but be

there, somewhere,

uminescent moss and the soft hum of planetary

in it. She saw the shift.

me had

owing moonstone from the cave wa

ed to the wind. "L