All Chapters of Bound by the Cursed Moon: Chapter 21

POV: Rhen"I need to go to the ruins," I said, before Kieran could finish crossing the training hollow toward me, "and I need you to not talk me out of it this time."He stopped a few feet away, reading something in my face that made the argument he had clearly been building die quietly in his throat. "What happened," he said instead. "You look like you have not slept.""My mother told me I was not the only one who ran from the Thornwolf valley the night I was born," I said. "She would not tell me who else left with her. She said the answer was standing in the ruins, carved into the same wall as my locket's crest, and that some truths are not hers to hand me secondhand.""That sounds exactly like the trap Vane's letter was describing," Kieran said carefully, though I could hear him fighting his own instinct to forbid me outright."I know how it sounds," I said. "I have thought about nothing else since she said it. But she also said the answer was carved into that wall, not waiting for