MOON MARKED BY THE LYCAN KING
The night air rushed in, smelling of ozone and something sharp—metallic, like blood left to oxidize on an iron blade.
I stepped onto the precipice, the wind whipping my hair across my face. Below, the valley was a sea of ink, but there, carved into the very earth where the tower had once been, was the seal: a crown, spiked with obsidian shards, wreathed in flames that were frozen in time. It glowed with a sickly, violet light.
"It's a barrier," Kael muttered, stepping up beside us. "No one can get close to that light without being incinerated."