Wolf Pact: The Complete Saga by Cruz Melissa de La

Author:Cruz, Melissa de La [Cruz, Melissa de La]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Romance, Vampires, Paranormal, Fantasy, Fiction - Young Adult
Amazon: B00AW0LA5W
Goodreads: 17281675
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Published: 2012-09-25T07:00:00+00:00

Bliss couldn’t recall ever seeing a sky so black or stars so bright, with the moon hanging so low over the trees. The drive had been long and wearisome, and as they’d been warned, the hike was steep and treacherous. They had locked Arthur’s van and left it at the base of the mountain, off the road, hidden in a copse of trees. Ahramin led the way as they walked through the woods, following a road up a long valley, over a pair of hills. Edon tried to keep up with her pace; Rafe and Malcolm followed them, with Lawson and Bliss at the rear. In the moonlight she could see that Lawson looked troubled. He had not spoken very much on the drive, and now she saw he had retreated deeper into himself, his brow furrowed, as he put one foot in front of the other, trudging along. They reached the crest of the first hill and looked down at the valley below, and Bliss heard Lawson suck in the air through his teeth. She turned to him and saw his face pale under the moonlight.

“What’s wrong?” They were looking down at a strange formation on the ground below, with the body of a snake, an oval shape at its head.

Lawson squinted and shook his head. “I have a strange feeling. Mac,” he whispered to his brother up ahead. “What is that thing? It looks familiar, like I’ve seen it before.”

“You have,” Malcolm confirmed, making his way back to them. “An old diorama of it, anyway. There’s one in Arthur’s show cave. It’s a serpent mound.” He explained what he knew, that the serpent mound was of Native American origin, built more than eight hundred years earlier by an unnamed Paleo-Indian tribe. Its shape was made to celebrate the solstices, the body of the serpent aligned with the positions of the summer and winter suns.

The Indian burial mound was a man-made hill covered in dense grass, and Bliss could see that the serpent had three parts. It started with the tail, a winding spiral in three arcs that straightened near the head, which was triangular and made to look as if the snake had its mouth open. Inside the serpent’s jaw was an oval pit dug into the earth. In the center of the excavation was a black rock.

“That’s not it…there’s something more,” Lawson said. “That serpent mound…I’m pretty sure it’s an entrance to the passages. The wolves must have found it and dug it out.”

Malcolm whistled. “The dark roads? The Via Obscuris? Here?”

Lawson nodded. “The portal was supposed to bring us close to it when we crossed from the underworld.…Marrok had a feeling it would be here. It looks like he was right. Do you notice the circle and stone inside the snake’s mouth?”

Bliss and Malcolm nodded.

“I’m pretty sure that conceals an entrance to the passages. The earthwork was a warning, built to ward off anyone who might disturb the site, to keep the portal closed.”

Ahramin led them down the mountain toward it.

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