The Lycan King’s Broken Mate
The air carried tender moss bud, resinous pine needles, and the fore-scent of ceremonial incense.
“This drape is too dense,” I said softly to the nearest decorator, a young lycan female. “It won’t let the moonlight through. Replace it with a sheer veil. The rite must be seen… not only heard.”
She nodded and darted off. At the center, before the glowing stone dais, the throne awaited—not the usual royal seat, but the ancient Moonlight Throne: carved gray moonstone veined in silver, which glows at the full. Before it, on its own plinth, the Moonlight Crown hovered: an openwork silver crescent set with luminous, ensorcelled moon-crystals. Not a jewel. A legacy.