This can’t be real, Selene thinks to herself. She can’t imagine there is any way High Priest Marcus could get past her grandfather’s lookouts. The way he slinks out of the shadows while laughing causes her whole body to shiver. She’s so scared she can’t even move while he steps closer.

Selene tries to remember what she had been taught a few hours earlier but she can’t recall anything. She never thought that the High Priest would actually follow them all the way to ...