TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING
A dozen mentions of silver, of silver-blooded wolves, always spoken of the way you’d speak of a bad omen you survived.
And once, only once, in a brittle handwritten margin note in a language close enough to one I know that I can almost make it out — the Long War — beside a symbol that makes the back of my neck prickle for reasons I can’t name.
I don’t find answers. But I find threads. And one thread, near the end, in a cracked leather book of herbcraft, stops me dead.
It’s a recipe.
Half of it’s been deliberately scratched out, gone over with ink so the words under are lost, and the rest is written in a cramped coded shorthand that takes me an hour to even start to crack.