ASHES OF THE FORSAKEN MOON

, fingers brushing the weathered stone

ath the moon crest: Serap

deceased." He had ordered the fire. He had watched the flames. He had smo

him, fo

s been another sighting. Near the Cr

has those eyes." "Except Seraphina," Rian sa

ollowed was thick

dropped fr

No alerts, no alarm. Just wa

asked, br

indow, where the moonlight st

he

things into a leather satchel. Lucien, now walking with the quiet grace of a

at dawn,

his head. "Wil

pa

"The same way I felt him die in

eyes glo

try to

are not his to take. You were never his to claim. You are m

, Talon raised his nose to t

as co

e the mountain that once buried her name. Because echoes grow lou