POV: LUNA
I barely remembered running back to campus. One second the figure was blocking my path. The next, I was sprinting through the forest. My newly awakened powers giving me speed I didn't know I had.
They'd let me go. Or I'd escaped. I wasn't sure which. But I'd made it back.
Nova was in our room when I burst through the door. She looked up from her homework. Her expression shifting from casual to concerned in seconds.
"Where have you been? You look like you've seen a ghost."
I leaned against the closed door. Trying to catch my breath. My hands still shaking. My mark still burning from whatever had happened in the clearing.
"I found something. Carvings. About my family."
Nova set her books aside. Stood up. "What kind of carvings?"
"Ancient ones. In the f*******n forest. At th
