Marked By Moonfire
Tonight, she needed answers that lived beyond reason.
At the base of the final stair, she found the heavy door.
She pushed it open slowly, the hinges creaking like a groan from the earth itself.
Inside, the librarian was waiting.
He was impossibly old — his hair long and white as bone, his eyes dim but alert. His name was Eldritch, the keeper of the archives, said to have served three Alphas before Kilian. He didn’t seem surprised to see her.
“I wondered when you’d come,” he rasped, his voice echoing softly off the stone. “They always come when the world begins to burn.”
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