~Chamber Of Secrets~

ELRICH

The council chamber smelled like incense and the musty smell of rain. The fire in the center pit burned low, the smoke curling toward the ceiling like it didn’t want to be there either.

Mira stood in the middle of the circle with her hands bound and chin up. She looked thinner than I remembered, but proud still, and kinda hollowed out. Her eyes came on me once, just once, before she looked back at the floor.

"Alpha," one of the elders said, ...