I bit hard. And Should I fail?''
He sighed, like wind blowing among dead leaves. "Then, as it has done so many times before, the darkness will call you. If you do, however, succeed you will learn the skills required to guard your pack—and maybe even stop the cycle of treachery.
I tightened my hands, resolve pumping into me. "I have nothing left to lose."
Egyndor nodded. Then go ahead, Crescent Alpha. Reveal the mysteries of the dark.
The world around me spun into a whirlpool of darkness and recollection the instant I passed the archway. I was in a world where time and space twisted in inconceivable directions, not in the familiar woodland. The ground under me throbbed like a live pulse, and the air smelled like wet dirt and old incense.
