The decree horn was still echoing across the grounds when Serena realized none of them had anywhere left to run.
"Enemy of every pack," she repeated, the words hollow in her mouth. "That's not a threat. That's a death sentence for anyone standing near me."
"Then we stop standing near you where they can find us." Kael's voice was tight, already thinking three steps ahead. "Your mother's journal. The map that rewrote itself in the abandoned classroom—it showed a second location past the Spirit Cave. We never finished following it."
"You think that's a place to hide?"
"I think your mother marked it for a reason, and I think we're out of better options."
Cassian, still crouched by the dying embers of the burned documents, looked up sharply. "If it's beneath the old tunnel network, I can g
