Chapter 16: The Bond Eternal

Months had passed since the fall of the Thorned Rose Throne. The ruins of the old Moon Court had been cleared away, not to make space for a new palace, but for a sprawling, open-air forum. It was a place of sunlight and starlight, of open skies rather than enclosing stone, a physical manifestation of the new era we were struggling to build. The path had not been easy. Old hatreds died hard. Suspicion lingered in the eyes of some vampires, and resentment festered in the hearts of some wolf clans...