Bound by blood freed by Fury
alm, where the spear had cut her. Her blood was dry now, but he
e sky had spoken. And nothing
d ordered the warriors back into the camp and told them to wait. Selene not
e was
spoken either, but his eyes followed her like he was expec
to go," she said again. "I have to
her eyes. He stared
"The Moon confirmed it. My blood did som
trap," Alaric
dn't f
hen I will face it. But I ha
spoke. "Let me
m a look. "She
trained me. You called me strong.
he nodded once. "Fine. But Caius goes with you. Stay close. Stay qu
ne n
through enemy lands. Just ho
as quiet, but the wind felt dif
ng main paths. The Crescent Moon Pack wouldn't
Like her feet already knew the way. Her hand still stung, and she kept touching the place wher
d from childhood. She stopped for a moment, crouched
y?" Caiu
st feels strange. Being th
lace gives me the creeps. All these
faintly. "Ma
rest opened into a clearing. In the center was a fallen
g place," she said. "Before
and checked the are
memory flashed. Her mother sitting there, brushing Sele
he asked quietly. "Tha
regor lies. And if he said she was dead
she's really alive... I don't know wh
to know yet," Caius
ey went, the more the air changed. The wind whisp
magic is followin
. She could feel something pulling her no
ced celebration. The fire pit was cold
tood beside the elder Mirra. No one h
o now?" one w
fight. We find her and end
ius said quietly. "We sho
kiss her feet? Be my guest. But when she br
ill not come to destroy. She comes to uncover.
, prepare. Triple the guards. Check the du
ind. He stared at the black sky, wondering
dge of Crescent Moon. They crouched behind thick
uld smell the land. She could
it," she
there, we will find her. We
the sky. The mo
me," she said. "Because I'
. Deep in the forest, something moved. Not an animal
round remembered her name. Whatever came next, she knew one thi
show them why they should have ki