MOON MARKED BY THE LYCAN KING
The torches along the stone walls flared as we passed, their orange flames leaning toward me as if drawn by a draft, though the air was perfectly still.
We walked directly to the tactical chamber—a long, narrow room behind the throne hall where the stone maps of the kingdom were laid out.
The map of Nighthaven was not a drawing on parchment, but a massive, three-dimensional relief carved from a single slab of white quartz. It showed every ridge, every valley, and every water-conduit that ran from the high glaciers down to the lower agricultural sectors.
I stepped up to the table, my hand coming to rest on the cool quartz surface. The moment my skin touched the stone, the relief seemed to glo