All Chapters of THE TRUE LUNA IS A FATSO! : Chapter 21 - Chapter 23

Zane's POV Bella's grip on my arm was tight enough to leave marks. I'd felt her strong before. In the courtyard this morning when the light had poured out of her and the flagstones had lit up beneath her feet, I'd understood intellectually that the woman beside me carried something enormous inside her. But this was different. This was her fingers finding the bone of my forearm through muscle and sleeve and holding on like I was the only solid thing in a world that had just tilted sideways. "Bella." I covered her hand with mine. "What did you hear?" She didn't answer immediately. Her eyes were unfocused in the way I'd started recognizing as her processing something through the mark rather than through ordinary thought. Whatever the name was, it hadn't just arrived in her mind. It had arrived in her body, in the same place everything else arrived that the mark decided she needed to know. The corridor was empty around us. Bram's team had moved ahead toward Darian's chambers. Wren h

Bella's POVThe search teams found four more objects before sundown.Four. Distributed across the packhouse in locations that told a story when you mapped them together. One behind a loose stone in the warriors' corridor. One pressed beneath the lip of the main gate's guard post. One inside the hollow leg of a table in the junior elders' meeting room. One tucked behind the water cistern serving the family wing.The family wing.That one landed differently than the others.Bram brought them all to Darian's secondary chamber wrapped carefully in cloth that Elder Crest had consecrated for containment, the kind of old pack ritual that most modern wolves treated as ceremonial rather than functional until a situation like this one made the distinction feel considerably less academic.Elder Crest examined each object in turn with the focused attention of a man consulting a language he hadn't spoken in years but hadn't entirely forgotten. He turned them carefully, studied the symbol arrangeme