Moonlit Shadows

ter spending hours poring over the evidence in the first murder case. She had been so engrossed in her work th

of her neck. She glanced over her shoulder but saw nothing. The town was shrouded in darkness,

ar outline of her apartment building up ahead. She fished in her pocket

y in her pocket. But there was no one there. She frown

hake the feeling that she was being watched. She unlocked

h, she saw that her apartment had been ransacked. Books were stre

home, searching for something. She rushed to her bedroom and ope

right all along. The pendant was connected to the murde

, she needed to figure out who had taken the pendant and why.

town. She came across a name that caught her attention - Aaron Blackwood. He had

ies of brutal murders that had occurred over a hundred years ago. Emma felt a chill run down h

Blackwood further, but before she co

ome to the station. We

emed like Silverwood was becoming a town plagued with death and da

m was found in the woods, just like the others," he said, leading he

rk liquid. "We found this near the body. It's some

e liquid inside had a faint metallic smell. She knew she had t

wolf legend, the history of the town, the pendant, and now this poison. E

re. As she walked through the dusty halls, she saw artifacts from Si

r, she came face to face

ked, her hand reachin

sorry for breaking into your apartment," he said. "B

her nerves on edge. "Wha

curse," he said. "The pendant is cursed. An

n was saying. A cursed pendant, a werewolf legend, and a se

she saw the fear and desperation ther

ther end of the hallway. It was a low

rror. "We have to go," he sa

h a maze of corridors and out a side door. They emerged into

urking in the shadows. Its eyes glowed in the d

r spine. This was no ordinary anima

he was in grave danger. The pendant, the werewol

per spray, she wondered if she