Bride of the Blood Moon
"He says the wolves walk upright, like men. They come at night and howl around the burned places. Sometimes they dig up the graves, sometimes they just watch from the edge of the fields. He draws what he remembers."
I look down at the wolf figures. "You think they’ll come back?"
She shrugs. "Not if you stay, Sun-daughter. But none of you ever stay."
The accusation lands with more force than she intends. I glance up, catching her eye, and see the calculation there—a tiny flinch, the knowledge she might be punished for speaking so plainly.
"It won’t always be this way," I say, softer than before. I hear the hollowness in my own voice.
Bab Populer