LOGIN~Valeria~"Why?" I asked. "Wouldn't the Dark Wolf King use a service door?""He'll use whatever's least guarded. If we stack the public entrances, he'll try service doors. If we stack service doors, he'll try public. So we stack everything and force him to fight his way in.""That assumes he comes through a door at all," Caius said. "He could come through a window. Through the r
~Valeria~"I'm not standing twenty feet away from Val during her coronation."Alerion was the first to speak.We'd been at this for fifteen minutes and already things were falling apart."Nobody said twenty feet," Michael replied,
~Valeria~The Royal Council chamber was exactly as uncomfortable as the last time I'd been here. Magistrate Reeves was talking about ceremony protocols. Something about processional orders and formal blessings and where everyone would stand.I was half-listening. The other half of my brain was tracking Blackwell's stare and wondering when he'd finally say whatever he was thinking.
~Lysander~Michael was quiet for a moment. "I can help. But my training isn't gentle. It's not safe. And if your brothers find out.""They won't.""They will eventually. You can't hide that kind of improvement.""I'll deal with tha
~Lysander~Zane was checking my temperature.Again.For the third time today.I slapped his hand away. "I don't have a fever."
~Valeria~My father walked into the kitchen holding a book that looked older than the house.Not a good sign.Books that old usually meant bad news or complicated magic or both."We need to talk about the ring," he said, setting it
~Valeria~
~Valeria~Back at the base, I was sitting on the couch trying to read through the seal-breaking ritual steps, which was already giving me a headache because it was written in the most confusing way possible. I was squinting at a paragraph about "channeling lunar essence through bloodline conduits"
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