To Live Among Wolves (Legends of Arcadia Book 1) by Morgan Hubbard

Author:Morgan Hubbard [Hubbard, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wistful Publishing
Published: 2024-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Caroline burst into Silas’s room, startling me from my studies. “Up, now.”

“What’s going on?” I closed the book I had been studying, learning the equivalent of vowel sounds of the Ancient Tongue. “Is it him?”

She grabbed my wrist and dragged me through the doorway, Guardian’s Glade, and down path after path. The silence ate at my insides.

“Caroline.” I tried to pull my wrist loose, but she had an iron grip. “What is going on? Let go.”

Caroline adjusted her hand and pulled me down a dark pathway. “Silas has done something utterly idiotic.”

My stomach lurched. Images of Silas lying broken, bruised, and bloody filled my mind. Images of Nyx covered in blood.

Is he dead?

“What’s happened to him?” I tried to keep from stumbling, but between being dragged from the room and fears about Silas’s well-being, my legs hadn’t had the chance to loosen.

The forest grew even darker, the light disappearing, difficult to imagine that it wasn’t midnight.

Caroline sucked in a breath. “Eden, I don’t know what state he will be in. It’s best to prepare for anything at this point.”

“What do you mean? What happened? I thought you had meetings. What has he done?” I pulled and yanked on my arm, but her grip grew tighter.

We passed through a lantern-lit archway into an ethereal place. The blue lightning bugs from Sarva drifted like stars in an endless midnight sky. The lanterns cast elongated shadows over the pathway as we passed several terrifying people in violet robes.

It dawned on me that we must be where the Seers worked, though the dark seemed ironic since I could barely see a thing. I wondered about Ransom and Aubrey and if they were here somewhere.

The dark consumed everything until it didn’t. A bright, azure fire blazed in the center of a room with similar fire in all of the lanterns. The flames in the pit leapt, and a bright wolf with piercing eyes jogged through, followed by a swirling image of myself, wrapped in robes and honeysuckle.

“Caroline,” a woman’s voice called from across the fire. Aubrey stepped over to us. “Markus said–”

“Take us,” Caroline commanded with an authority I hadn’t yet seen her wear. It fit her like a glove. “Now.”

Aubrey bowed her head and turned on her heel. She led the way down a pitch-black pathway, Caroline still gripping my arm. Up ahead, a faint silver glow seeped through the dense trees.

“Thank you, Aubrey,” Caroline breathed and we stopped.

Sidling up next to her, I could see the faint reflection of silver in her eyes. Tears had pooled at the base of her eyelids.

Aubrey left us, and Caroline pushed forward into a room that smelled of licorice and bile.

“Oh, Lycaon,” Caroline muttered, releasing my arm to cover her mouth and nose.

Despite the awful stench, the sight scared me more. Silas sat like a statue at the edge of a narrow bed, if it could be called that. He choked, and something dark had dried to his chin.

“What did you do to him?” I breathed, finding my voice.

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