vanish at a v
ckers, behind the laughter, behind the thick, stifling silence of a town that never welcomed her. Invisibility wa
arved into the shape of a crescent moon-and her name, whispered by the woman who left her on the Harrow fa
rows. They
hain-smoked through soap operas and ignored Elara except when there was something to clean or some mess to blame. Three years older and perpetually cruel, Garrett
ra didn
lon
were packed with things no one ever requested-twisted ancient trees with eyes, moons fractured like glass, wolves with s
of her eight
with th
like lances of light in the dark. A silver-eyed wolf crept from the darkness, its presence terrifying and divine. It moved closer to her, a
ure dis
ers were red
n her throat. And then a feral
glowed just belo
ma
incised not into her flesh but into the air over it-such
mirror. Panic ro
Covered it. It seeped through her shir
ke a whip cracking at her door. "Wh
ing. She grabbed a hoodie, the mark
everything
Her hoodie was a coffin and armour all in one. Her skin crawled. The mark throbbed, another heartbeat. She could hea
o. She was be
smates. By no o
arving. Some
before the last
't get v
rea. She was aware of him before he moved, walking, cloaked,
lea
on her shoulder seeme
hiss, staggering as th
nother
anot
didn't pause. They arrived
legs throbbing. Branches lashed at her. Mud p
y moved
art thrashing, s
erself. With no answers. N
n-he ap
moonlight. A flash o
Drop
to escape. Was pull
dissolved
escended
her body shaki
s. He glided like a legend from times long passed, beautiful and deadly. His tone was
ou are yet," he told
r heart tightening.
e side, as though recall
l Th
if we don't go now,
m. Laugh. Demand so
deep in her
st h
rtainl
nt, Elara Moonsto
would never be