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Chapter 41

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LILA

I laid out the cowries on the table like puzzle pieces. One from the clearing, one from the owl and the rest from the old cedar box buried beneath scarves.

The cowries in my old box… I began lining them up in the patterns we used to practice under candlelight.

Lyric’s favourite layout was three in a crescent; two curved and one in the centre.

She said it looked like a wolf’s claw. I laid them out that way now, using the shells I had; two from her, one from the past.

The shells pointed east. There was only one place east of Blackwood where she could be, where someone like Lyric might go if she needed to vanish, stay close, and still send signs without being seen: The old ruin ridge. It is an abandoned territory. There are no patrols, no Pack claim and no reason to go there.

Unless you needed to hide.

I stared at the crescent, then reached for a map from the archives and traced a shaky line toward the ridge.

If she was leaving clues, this was the next one. And then… a deeper fear b
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