POV: Nova
Luna was missing.
She hadn't shown up for dinner. Wasn't answering through the pack bonds. Her dorm room was empty.
And I was trying very hard not to panic.
"Maybe she's with Liam?" Lyric suggested.
"I already checked. He hasn't seen her since the roof earlier."
We were gathered in a study room, all of us feeling the same cold dread through our bonds to Luna.
The connection was there. Faint. Muffled somehow.
But she was alive. That was something.
"We need to tell the Headmaster," Aria said.
"And say what? That we lost our incredibly powerful friend?" I shook my head. "He'll blame us for not protecting her."
"He'd be right to," Sienna said quietly. "We're her pack. We should have been watching closer."
"Stop." I forced my voice to stay steady. "Blaming ourselves won't
