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Chapter 32: The Fall of Moonlight

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~Omniscient POV

The world beneath the moon trembled.

Blood soaked the rivers where lilies once bloomed. Smoke curled like black ribbons through the trees. And above it all—above the howls, the pleas, the frantic beating of terrified hearts—Lira watched from the cliffs. Her hair, silver and wild, whipped around her face like ghostfire. Her eyes burned with relentless light.

She was beautiful. Terrible. Divine.

Behind her stood the Lunar Sentients, cloaked in moonsteel and righteousness, their crescent sigils glowing blue across their wrists. In their hands, they held the weight of Lira’s blessing—power not meant for mortal hands.

And in their eyes burned the conviction that they were doing what was right.

“That village was cleansed,” said Maris, one of her most devoted Sentients, kneeling before her. “They were hiding thieves. One of the children was caught hoarding fruit. The elder confessed to shielding him.”

Lira’s expression didn’t falter. “Was he punished?”

Maris bowed his head. “
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