Shadow Of The Blood Moon

a curved blade. Sweat dripped from her brow, but she refused to falter, each strike of her hammer precise and deliberate.

, Old Joren, barked from his seat by the hearth. His one

hed into a smirk. She respected Joren's skill but wasn't abou

bout, preparing charms and barricading their homes. But this year, an eerie tension hung in the air,

broke her c

the forge, his small frame trembling. His fac

e demanded, settin

e wolves. The

rled hands gripping his

near the old mill. They're bigger than normal wolves... and

quickly pushed it aside. "Stay he

"You've heard the stories. If it's

e snapped, already grabbing her newly forged

crunched against the frost-covered ground as she moved toward the edge of the village. The tree

ies of Ravenspire were full of such creatures, but she had always dismissed them as tales to

l broke th

eyes darted through the shadows, searching for movement. The

amber eyes emerged

t. The wolf stepped into the moonlight, its form massive and menacing. Its

oping her voice would mask

iberate and predatory. Elise swung her blade in a wide arc, but the cr

ment happen

bled, barely managing to twist out of the way. Pain seared through

ise

urned her head just in time to see her brother rac

screamed, but i

through Elise, drowning out the pain in her side. She scrambled to

emed to

elf between the wolf and Will, raising the blade in a des

ashing to the ground. Claws raked against her skin, and sh

rything w

-

into her bones, making her limbs heavy and unresponsive. Her vision

" a deep voi

stronger now, mingled with something musky and unfamiliar

s that seemed to glow faintly in the dim light. Hi

cked. She swallowed, try

he said

ped around her shoulder. The memory o

wol

," Kade interrupted. "Tha

at me," Elise muttered, her voice edge

ugh it wasn't quite a smi

, heavy with meaning Elis

demanded, her stomach churn

n," Kade said, his tone matter-of-fact.

efused to show fear. "I d

nd unnervingly graceful. "But whether you believe it or not doesn't matt

despite the protests of her b

use if you don't, the wolves won't just kill y

pine. For the first time, she realized she wasn't jus