The Broken Alpha
Leather straps had been bound to it, and she shuddered as she guessed at what they were for.
Down its side were glowing shapes that looked like archaic letters, the language one Lily had no knowledge of, glimmering softly in electric shades of purple and blue. As she looked down at them, her eyes caught on something else. The stone was not just at the centre of the clearing – it stood at the centre of a circle, burnt into the earth, through which lines had been slashed, each of them housing yet more letters, all of them glinting in the shame, eerie light as the rock itself.
Lily was tilted upright, though the warriors kept her feet from touching the ground. She stretched, wriggling in their