Maya's POV
"Let me understand this," he said. "You think Seraphina, our Luna, is deliberately poisoning her own pack? The pack she's worked so hard to integrate into and improve?"
"Look at the evidence," I pleaded, waving the paper. "The pattern of illness, the symptoms, this note.."
"What note?" Elijah asked, squinting at the crumpled paper. "All I see is a piece of trash with some illegible scribbles on it."
I looked down at the paper in my hands and felt my heart sink. In the lamplight, I could see that the ink had smudged badly, making most of the writing impossible to read. The few words I'd been able to make out clearly were now just blurred marks.
"It was clearer before," I said desperately. "The ink must have smudged, but I swear it mentioned the well system and eliminating w
