SELENE
TWO DAYS LATER
It was late, past midnight. Most students had gone back to their dorms hours ago. The library had that empty feeling it got after eleven, when the night shift staff were the only people walking around and the fluorescent lights seemed too bright for how few people were actually there.
I was in the back corner where I usually studied, surrounded by books I had pulled from the shelves. Bloodline histories, werewolf genealogies. Old texts about the Vale line and what the ancient records said about them.
I had been trying to understand more about the prophecy. Trying to find answers in old pages that probably did not have them but that I read anyway because it felt like doing something was better than doing nothing.
That was when I realized the library had gone qui
