Chapter 5

Caelan was waiting outside the council chamber when Elias told me the blood-moon record could be sealed.

Still sealed, and it would stay sealed for forty-eight hours while the council decided whether my complaint met the threshold for a formal inquiry.

"Tell them it was an emergency," Caelan said quietly. "Tell them I made the call and you were too weak to understand what was happening. We can settle this without turning Milo into a public spectacle."

I stopped beneath the carved wolf above the chamber doors. Two days ago, I would have heard its warning in my bones. Now…