/-Zara-/

"How did I get here?"

My head throbbed really hard as I scanned around my surroundings and I was here again— here in this tower.

The tower room was too quiet. That was the first sign that something was wrong. No guards outside my door. No sound at all.

I was wearing a track on the dusty stone floor, my mind racing through everything I overheard. Moira. Rowan. The Shadow Covenant. The ritual. The fact that I was meant to be the thirteenth and final sacrifice.

When they had dragged ...