EMBRACING THE FORSAKEN LUNA
ade a silent vow. I was going to find out who was behind this. I
ng that we were only just beginning to un
cold realization settled over me-I was no longer just a
re dangerous, something that threatened
iend, who had been standing silently besid
re about the curse, about the prophecy
n. "I'll start searching through the library t
st the wall, his face set in grim resolve. "Gi
ut being seen. We need to tighten sec
tance. "Consider it done. I'll gather the patrol teams
red wolf, a wave of helplessness washing over me.
them. But I couldn't stand idly by while my pack was tor
e," she said quietly. "These wounds-they're not just from any ordinary werewo
I asked, dread cre
istening. "Years ago, before you were born, there was a simila
these. I always suspected there was something u
ys been shrouded in mystery, their bodies found in the for
ttack, but now... now it seemed there w
say anything?" I aske
d no one wanted to believe that there could be dark forces at
tever attacked your parents is the
he puzzle starting to come together i
was all connected. And if we didn't figure out h
ice steadier than I felt. "You'v
, Sera. Whatever this is, it's powerful. And
weren't random; they were targeted, deliberate. And if they were connected to the curse that had
ories. I had to get back to that book, had to find out more about t
other scream echoed through the p
hall toward me, her face pale with fear. "Sera!" she called o
h my veins. We burst into the common room where a small group h
ack member, this one barely conscious, their body co
rved into the floor beside them. The same symbol, the Mark of the Shadowed Moon, etch
ispered, my voice barely audible over t
to apply pressure to the wounds, but it w
f was palpable in the air, thick and s
ed with desperation. "Sera, we can't keep l
asn't just about me anymore. This was about the entire pack, and
ier than it had any right to be. "But first,
d out what really happened to the first
d with uncertainty. "And what if we
't know if we could stop whatever dark force was at wo
d wolf to the infirmary, I couldn't shak
more brutal. Whoever-or whatever-was behind them was g
e Shadowed Moon still etched into the floor, I k
d teeth. This was something far more insidious, something that had been fes
t would determine the fate of my pack, I realize
h about the curse, about my parents, and about t
xt attack might be the one
gun to show its true face. As the moon hung high in the sky, c
took. And I would make sure that whoever was behind
't just a healer. I was a fighter. And I would do whatever it took to
as thick with tension as I pace
the feeling that we were on the verge of something
etermined to find the key to breaking the curs
quinted into the darkness, trying
oice trembling slightly despite m
Then, from the shadows, a figure stepped forw
hey slowly approached, their movem
with an unsettling familiarity. "You've been asking
figure lunged forward, a