THE LUNA HE NEVER TRULY KNEW
A wolf cloaked entirely in black.
Not wearing black, not dressed in black, but composed of blackness itself, as if the shadows had gathered themselves together and taken form, as if the absence of light had learned to walk and think and hunger.
Motionless.
Watching.
Waiting.
Elder Hale's voice trembled, and in that trembling, Marcus heard the end of an era, the collapse of everything he had believed to be permanent and unchanging.
"The Black Fang..."
Marcus stepped forward, toward the glass wall that separated him from the thing in the darkness, toward the ancient enemy that had been waiting for him since before he was born.