The parchment shook in my hands.
I read the same line again.
Then again.
But the words refused to make sense.
Original Moon Ceremony Record — Restricted by Order of the Moon Council.
I stared at the royal seal pressed into the wax.
It wasn't the council's seal.
It was older.
More powerful.
The same symbol I'd seen on ancient royal documents.
Kael's family.
My stomach tightened.
Why would the royal family have anything to do with Lyra's Mate Ceremony?
I lowered the parchment onto the table.
There had to be more.
I pulled open the drawer beneath the archive desk and searched through the old registers.
Nothing.
I checked the shelves again.
Nothing.
The original record was here, but every document connected to it had disappeared.
That wasn't an accident.
Someone had remove
