Selene the Silver Luna
She skirted along the edge of the stone cliffside, slipping past the outer patrol of grey-cloaked hunters and descending toward the dark, subterranean tunnels beneath the fortress dais.
As she reached the iron side-door leading into the Elders' sanctuary, a cold voice echoed from the shadowed hallway behind her.
"I wondered how long it would take for the sacrifice to crawl out of her hole."
Selene stopped dead in her tracks.
Slowly turning around, she faced the shadows. Stepping into the faint torchlight was not a hunter, but a young woman in refined silver silks—Lady Katherine, the daughter of Elder William and Kael's former betrothed. In her right hand, she held a slender, silver-tipped da