Book Two – Chapter 15
The Call of the Sovereigns
The Moon Tree glowed with blinding silver light.
Its branches swayed though the air was perfectly still.
Every wolf kneeling in the courtyard remained motionless, their eyes closed as if caught between sleep and waking.
Only a handful of us could still move.
Me.
Kael.
Draven.
Cassiel.
My mother.
Elder Rowan.
Everyone else was trapped beneath the Moon Tree's strange power.
I hurried to my father.
"Father!"
I grasped his shoulders.
There was no response.
His golden eyes were open, but they stared beyond the world around us.
My mother's voice trembled.
"I've tried everything."
"He can't hear me."
Cassiel stepped beside us and gently placed two fingers against Orion's forehead.
His expression immediately changed.
"This isn
