The Luna's Second Fate
A week into our lockdown, we had our first traitor.
Marcus appeared at the sanctuary's gate, disheveled and wild-eyed. For a moment, my heart leapt, my oldest friend, come to help. Then Elder Morgana activated the truth-seer crystal.
Marcus's form flickered. For just an instant, I saw something else beneath the familiar face, something scaled and wrong and deeply not-human.
"So you know," he said, and his voice was layered with at least three different tones speaking at once.