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