The Stray Moon
“You’ll want the left wall. The right’s colder.”
I step inside, and the floor crunches underfoot—salt, scattered thick as if to keep something from growing. I kneel, run my fingers through it, and find bits of fur, old nail, the flecks of whatever happened to the last wolf who lived here.
He follows me in, glances at the wall, then at the blank stretch of stone above the cot. Tacked there with a rusted spike is a parchment, written in a precise, formal hand:
CONTAINMENT PROTOCOL, STRAY MOON:
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