Chapter 24 – The Human Can’t Stay
The tension in the Moonborne village was a storm waiting to break.
The Blood Moon Festival had ended only nights ago, yet its aftermath lingered in every whispered word, every cautious glance cast toward Seren. What should have been a sacred celebration of unity and renewal had instead birthed unease. Seren’s skin still burned faintly with the silver-white glow of the moonlit mark the elders had revealed, a brand she had not chosen but one that no one could ignore.
The prophecy.
The whispers.
The suspicion.
And now—the judgment.
Seren sat in the longhouse, the council’s fire burning low in the pit at the center. Smoke curled lazily toward the rafters, where charms of bone and feathers swung, clicking like teeth in the breeze. Around her, wolves in t
