Blood Bound Luna
Most of them smiled, a few waved, and one elderly woman selling herbs pressed a small bundle into her hands.
“For strength,” the woman said, her eyes kind. “You’ll need it, marked one.”
Before Selene could respond, the woman had shuffled back to her stall.
“That’s Grandmother Eris,” Kira explained. “She’s been alive for like two hundred years and knows everything about everyone. Also makes the best tea in the territory, though it tastes like dirt and regret.”
“Sounds delightful.”
“It really is.”
They stopped at a tavern that looked like it had been built sometime during the Bronze Age and hadn’t been updated since. The sign above the door read “THE HOWLING BARREL” and featured a picture of a