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The Luna's Circlet
"Let her go."My voice came out wrong, scraped raw and shaking. Draven didn't even look at me. He held Sable a foot off the floor, one hand locked around her throat, golden light flickering beneath her skin."Why would I?" he said. "I've spent years building this. A Luna with two souls? The Stone has never had a vessel like her."Sable clawed at his wrist. Her lips shaped a word. Kael.I threw myself at him.He didn't even turn. He flicked his free hand, and a wave of silver force hit me in the chest and slammed me into the wall. The stone cracked behind my spine. I slid down it, vision swimming, and tried to stand. My legs wouldn't answer.This body can't take much more, I thought. Without Rowan's soul tangled with mine, the borrowed flesh was failing. I could feel the ritual unraveling at its edges, my hands going numb, my heartbeat stuttering."Kael."A whisper from the floor. Seraphine lay near the broken pedestal where the Luna magic had left her, her cloak soaked dark, one hand
What the Moon Takes
"Don't you dare," I whispered. "Sable. Don't you dare."I pressed my mouth to her hair. I shook her. I called her name until my voice cracked. Her body stayed cold in my arms, her head lolling against my elbow.Above us, Draven's laughter rolled through the open vault like thunder."Dead," he said, almost kindly. "What a waste. She'd have made a lovely Luna."Kael.The voice in my head was so faint I almost missed it. Rowan, thin as smoke. Our souls had loosened when the Stone pulled at us, and I could feel the seam between us again, a crack widening down the middle of my mind.I can still reach her, he said. Her heart stopped, but her soul hasn't left. The Stone is holding it. If I go in after her...You'll be torn apart.I'm already coming apart. A broken laugh. Let me spend what's left on something that matters.Rowan...She's my sister, Kael.I couldn't say no. I didn't have the right."Then go," I whispered. "And come back."I'll try.Something slipped out of my chest, warm and w
One Soul Left
The Moon Stone didn't just hum anymore. It sang.The sound filled the vault until the walls shivered. Dust rained from the ceiling. Sable drifted toward me, bare feet a hand's width above the floor, silver light pouring out of her eyes and mouth."One soul," the Stone said through her. "The ritual demands one."Kael, said the voice in my head, and it was no longer two voices but one, with Rowan's gentleness and my fury braided together. It wants us. The merged soul is the price.Then it can't have her.No. A pause, almost a laugh. It can't."Kael, don't!" Seraphine stumbled down the last steps, clutching her ruined arm. "If the Stone takes a fused soul, there is no coming back. Not a second life. Not a third. You'll simply stop.""You told me there was no way to end this without a death," I said. "Pick one.""I picked you!" Her voice cracked. "I always picked you! That's the whole stupid tragedy!"Behind her, Draven had crawled to his knees. Blood ran from his mouth, but his eyes were
The Coronation
Draven descended the stairs one step at a time, clapping slowly, a crown of black iron hanging from two fingers."You always did arrive at the worst moment," he said. "That's what made you a good Alpha. You never knew when to stay dead.""Let her go," I said."Oh, I can't." He smiled sadly. "She's the point."He knew, Rowan whispered. He knew the mark would go to her."It was never about breaking the ritual," Draven went on, strolling toward the pedestal as if the room were his. "That was Seraphine's little romance. I wanted something bigger. The Moon Stone gives power to whoever it bonds with, but only through a Luna. A willing one. Or one close enough to death that she can't refuse."Sable hung in the silver light, eyes blazing, her mouth moving with words that weren't hers."You planted the book," I said. "You made sure she'd find the ritual.""I made sure she'd care enough to do it." He glanced at her, almost gently. "Sable loves fiercely. Her brother. Her friends. You. A girl lik
The War Fire
"She took it while I was sleeping," I said. "No. While I was thinking."Save the guilt for later, Rowan said. Run.I was already running.I made it halfway across the camp before a hand like an iron hook caught my arm. Maren. Behind her, the outcasts were waking, wolves rising from their blankets with weapons in their hands, drawn by the red glow on the horizon."The girl went to die," Maren said. "And you'll go after her alone, with no pack, in a borrowed skin.""Let go.""Or you can ask." Her blind-white eyes held mine. "Alpha."The word landed in my chest like a stone dropped into water.Do it, Rowan whispered. They've been waiting for someone to ask.I turned to face them. Thirty wolves. Forty. Mothers, boys, old men with scarred hands, every one of them cast out by a pack that should have protected them.I didn't have a speech. I had only the truth."Draven killed me," I said. "I came back wearing a dead boy's face. My Luna-to-be just walked into the Alpha hall to finish somethin
The Packless Lands
Three nights.That count hammered inside my head all day as we crossed the forest, avoiding the roads and the rivers, following only deer trails. Sable walked ahead, one hand pressed against her side, pretending she wasn't limping."Stop looking at me like that," she said without turning."I'm not looking at you any way.""You're looking at me like I'm already a gravestone."You are thinking it, Rowan whispered.Shut up.I'm only saying what she already knows.At dusk we reached a ravine thick with ferns. Sable whistled two low notes, and the earth seemed to open. Figures emerged from between the rocks: packless wolves in patched clothes with tired eyes. The outcasts of the borderlands. A dozen. Then thirty. Then more.And at the front, leaning on a staff of bone, stood an old woman with white hair, watching us with eyes that never blinked."You're late, girl," she said."Maren." Sable tried to smile. "I brought someone."The old woman looked me up and down, and I felt her strip my so
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