Chapter 28 - Hidden History

For Jake, the idea that he was expected to eventually replace Kristopher as leader of the Moonwood Collective was always in the back of his mind. The expectation gnawed at him, like the Fury of the Wolf, and, like the Fury, it drove him. He'd long ago taken to calling his circle of friends the Young Collective. While neither were formally part of the real Collective, Nick and Beth had both embraced the Young Collective and followed Jake's lead. The addition Miranda, even though she wasn't a Wolf, to the Young Collective had given them purpose.

Now that they were getting a handle on school, Jake thought it was time for them to start digging into the hidden history of Moonwood Mill.

Jake and Beth were learning the old werewolf runes and reading the books of history and lore.


Miranda started practicing her spellcraft again.


Nick... well, Nick wasn't much for studying. He focused on keeping himself fit.

Jake knew that the best way to learn about the history of the town was to talk to the man who had lived through most of it... Kristopher. His father was always cagey about his past, but every once in a while he would let something slip.

With what he could find in the books and learn from his father, Jake started delving into the tunnels under the town.


From there and other places, they started gathering a collection of old artifacts...


Beth set herself the task of studying them...


... translating the runes and unlocking the history of the Mooncasters - witches who drew power from the moons and eventually became the first werewolves.


Miranda found she could take the fragments Beth was discovering and use them to inspire her spellcraft (with a little help from Bluebell). She was starting to learn how to channel and focus the energies of the moon.

Beth was learning a lot about the past - the magic of the Mooncasters and the roots of her own power - but she knew there had to be more.

It was Kristopher who let slip the last piece she needed... that the infamous and mad werewolf Greg was the oldest living werewolf.


Greg was an immortal like Kristopher himself... he might be the last surviving Mooncaster.


If anyone had the answers they needed...

Beth set out to find her answers...

She knew digging around in Greg's yard, looking for clues, was probably the most dangerous thing she had even done...


She could smell him out there... and she ran!


"Where have you been?" Miranda shouted. "I've been looking all over for you. Jake said he saw you heading toward the lake."


"I found it!" Beth gasped.

"Found what?"

"The journal of Greggorius Lunvik, the oldest living werewolf," Beth grinned. "The last Mooncaster!"