The Moon's Forgotten Bride
Elira's fury didn't fade, but something in the woman's tone — careful, deliberate, entirely unlike the menace she'd braced herself for — gave her enough pause to keep the Moon's Hand contained a moment longer.
"Explain that," she said.
Isolde studied her for a long moment before answering, weighing something Elira couldn't read. "The Vigil was founded on a single catastrophic night, three generations ago. A Kestrel bearer, young, untrained, absolutely certain of her own righteousness, decided an entire territory's leadership deserved to be destroyed, and she destroyed it, without oversight, without restraint, without anyone capable of stopping her until eleven wolves were dead and an entire