All Chapters of Luna Rising: Chapter 161 - Chapter 168

Gavin POVI held my arms out in front of me, just now noticing the sting of the bloody grooves. Atka immediately started healing them, but it was taking more effort than healing usually did. I could feel him beginning to tire. Then I heard a noise from outside my bedroom, and my mother’s voice. “Let me through!” she demanded. She barreled through the door, looking like a furious little pixie. We regularly teased her about how short she was, given that I was just as tall as my dad and my sisters were already taller than her at fifteen. She never let it stop her, though, and certainly wasn’t backing down now. “Let me get to my son, damn it!” The group in my bedroom parted, making way for her, and she all but leaped onto my bed. Her hands came over my forearms, and I felt the heat moving through the cuts. Dad was standing in the doorway, looking on while the rest of the room was silent. He was perfectly still, unless you looked at the way his jaw ticked. The tension was impossible to

Gavin POVMom and Dad took their usual suite to get a few hours’ rest before we contacted Elaine. Everyone else went back to their rooms, but I was still restless after everything and couldn’t settle. So Atka and I decided to go for a run.We headed out into the forest that was at the back of the castle. I stripped down, putting my clothes in one of the many baskets set out so we didn’t have to leave them stuffed in trees or on the ground, and then I gave control to Atka. We shifted into his wolf form seamlessly, and he stretched once before taking off.The familiar rhythm of his paws digging into the ground as he ran helped soothe something in both of us, and I let him take the lead while I turned everything that had happened over in my mind. When he’d run for about an hour, he finally slowed, and we came up to the stream that cut through the forest. The water gurgled as it ran over stone, and Atka took a moment to slake his thirst before he lay down on the bank. Once he’d settled,

Elara POVThe first thing I noticed as I came out of the dream was the smell. It was…wrong. The second thing was the necklace in my fist. I lifted my hand, the chain dangling against my forearm as I brought the tooth closer to examine it. It looked real. It certainly felt solid in my hand. The chain was cold against my skin, swinging freely as I turned the tooth over and examined the wire wrapping that formed the top, creating a bail for the chain to slide through. And when I gripped the tooth tightly against my palm, the edges bit in with just a hint of pain.I’d brought something of Gavin’s from my dream into reality. My heart thumped hard at the thought. How was that possible? While I’d known I was traveling outside of myself, that the dreams were more than dreams, I had never imagined I could carry something through the planes. A tiny hiss brought my focus back to the room, and I looked around to see where it came from. There, up in the vents, a puff of mist was already dissip

Gavin POVElaine arranged the candles in a circle around the map and anchored the four points with chunks of tourmaline. When she had the table set, she stepped back and gestured me forward, withdrawing a small knife as she did so. “I’ll make a small incision, just enough for a few drops. I need you to let them fall on the map,” she said. Her hand was warm, her grip firm but still gentle as she drew her knife across the flesh just below my thumb. The blade broke through my skin with a quick sting. I squeezed, letting the red blood fall onto the map as she’d directed. “That’s enough,” she said. Atka closed the wound quickly, leaving no trace of it behind. Elaine stepped forward, chanting over the makeshift altar. The flames spiked high as she said, “Hecate, Selene, I call unto thee. Help us trace this destiny. Show us where his essence resides, where a part of his soul now survives. Lead us to what we seek. As I will, so mote it be.”Air moved through the room, ruffling my hair as t