The False Luna Has My Wolf
The priestess’s own name was etched into the record.
Maera lifted her chin, her mask sliding back into place.
“A damaged page is not a verdict.”
Mira answered quietly, her voice carrying through the charged air.
“No. But it is no longer buried.”
Corvin demanded the record be sealed for formal review, pointing to the burned lower section where the most critical information had been destroyed.
“The page is incomplete,” he declared. “It cannot be trusted as final evidence.”
Uncertainty began to sway the room back toward doubt.
Then Mira’s open-eye mark burned. Cassia’s bracelet seared in answer. Beneath the floorboards, the lower door trembled as a focused howl rose from below.