Chapter 15 - The Veil.

The Veil was the oldest and first fixture in Avalon. It was old and ancient and the little Gatekeeper house next to it was just as old.

It was a large impregnable timbered arched gate with a grimly ornamental look to it. It was tremendously spiked and it had poison Ivy creeping and growing at the sides. 

Next to the gate were monkshood and wolfsbane. Cora knew enough of her werewolf history to know that every single thing on the gate and next to the gate was deathly poisonous to werewolves.

And the gate itself was a living breathing thing spelled with old mage magic forged by the very first mages and the very first lycans.

She remembered her first crossing. They had to walk for hours and hours in the woods because the Veil was shrouded in a secre