They moved in two teams.
Bianca took the journal — the one Arvella had left on her nightstand, the one she'd been reading when Rowan came through the window — and followed the pull northward. Marcus had retrieved it that morning, handling it carefully, as if the leather-bound book might shatter if held too roughly. The crescent moon on the cover caught the light and seemed to pulse.
"The journal is a key," Bianca explained as they moved through the forest. "Selena designed it that way, it will open and show us something that is cloaked — invisible to anyone without the resonance to see through the wards. But the journal carries Selena's signature. If I hold it near the ward line, it should unlock the concealment."
Lucas and Levi flanked her, both in human form, moving fast but quiet. Ev
