Chapter 166 - A Warning from the Spirits

Far from the political plots of the grand hall, back at the camp, Luna Katherine was in her chambers, lost in meditation. The room was dimly lit, with the candles that flickered all around her providing the sole source of light. She was sitting cross-legged on a cushion with her eyes closed in concentration. The smell of burning incense filled the air, and smoke rose in thin tendrils around her. With her thoughts concentrated on the vision that had been developing in the back of her mind, Luna Katherine's breathing was calm and slow. All day she had been aware of the spirits' pull, a persistent feeling that something was wrong and needed her attention. So she'd gone back to her room and asked the ethereal spirits who had been her friends for so long for advice. Luna Katherine felt herself going into a trance as the incense smoke swirled about her, her spirit leaving her body and ascending into the cosmos. She was flying through the forest's trees instead of being in her quart