THE LUNA WHO WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST
Behind them, the low groan had become something closer to a voice — not words, not exactly, but a rhythm underneath the sound, ancient and patient, like it had all the time in the world and simply hadn't decided yet whether to bother catching them.
"There," Kade said, pointing to a shape rising out of the trees ahead of them — the broken remains of what might once have been a small stone tower, half swallowed by black roots and centuries of moss, one wall collapsed entirely but the rest standing just enough to offer shelter. "The old den. We can't outrun whatever's under these Woods, Luna, but we might be able to hide from it long enough to think."