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THE ECHOES YET TO COME

Author: LUMI VIOLETTE
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-27 02:02:06

Three years passed, but the sky above Vireya never truly calmed.

It remained in a state of gentle unrest—clouds shifting where none had before, stars blinking like restless eyes. The ley lines beneath the city pulsed louder. The moon glowed more brightly over the spires.

And always, always, the twins pulsed with it.

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Theron now ran faster than any child his age. His feet never quite touched the ground when he moved quickly—fire trailed behind him in flickers of gold. He could call sparks from his fingertips without trying. Once, he sneezed during a Council meeting and singed the banners above the hearth.

Elira, meanwhile, hummed to the gardens and they bloomed wildly out of season. She read tomes not written in the current age. Once, she healed a wounded hawk with a single tear.

Where Theron grew intense, restless, smoldering—

Elira was calm. Still. Luminous.

Together, they stood at the edge of something vast.

Apart… they were becoming unknowable.

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Selene stood in the observatio
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  • MOONBOUND DESIRE    ASHES AND OATHS

    The forest was quiet again.Too quiet.Birdsong had not yet returned, and the wind moved the trees in heavy, exhausted sighs. Everything bore the weight of what had transpired—like the land itself was recovering from a wound.Elira stood barefoot near the altar, her cloak discarded, her hair tangled with dried leaves and stardust. Her palms still burned with faint residual heat from the tower’s destruction. The anchor’s core had exploded in their hands, severing the breach—but not without consequence.A tremor still lived in her bones.Theron stood beside her, his mark dimmed but steady. He hadn’t spoken much since their return. Neither had she. There was something sacred in the silence between them, as though speaking too soon might shatter the fragile veil of peace clinging to the camp.They had survived.But something had been left behind.Kael limped into the clearing, his left leg bound in bloodied fabric. Selene was at his side, her bow slung over her back. Her eyes were tired,

  • MOONBOUND DESIRE    WHEN SHADOWS MARCH

    The air split.No scream, no thunder—only the sound of reality tearing at its seams as the Gate flared open in the heart of the clearing. The ritual markings surrounding Elira and Theron burned with silver fire, casting long, dancing shadows across the clearing. Above them, the blood moon throbbed like a second heartbeat. And beyond the shimmering veil, the first Hollow-Blooded emerged.It was not a creature.It was a wound.A form stitched from smoke, hunger, and hollow light, with no face and too many voices. It slithered rather than walked, limbs coalescing and fading with each step. The protective barrier pulsed in warning as it neared.Elira's breath caught. She reached for Theron’s hand instinctively, her fingers tightening around his.“Ready?” she whispered.He didn’t need to speak. His grip answered her.Behind them, Selene stood with her bow drawn, silver-tipped arrows glowing with moonlight. Kael flanked her, his twin blades already humming in his grip. Rowan circled behind,

  • MOONBOUND DESIRE    THE GATHERING STORM

    The red moon hung in the sky like a warning—bloated and heavy, casting a violent hue over the treetops. It had only just risen, yet the air already pulsed with unease. Elira could feel it in her bones, in the tremble of the leaves, in the echo of her heartbeat.They had returned from the Realm Beyond not empty-handed, but changed. Empowered. Marked. And with their return came consequence.The world was shifting.And not in their favor.---“The Gate didn’t close behind you,” Naeria murmured, her eyes scanning the space where the shimmering portal had once hovered. “It fractured.”Elira stood nearby, her arms crossed, gaze on the trees. “What does that mean?”Theron answered for Naeria, his voice low. “It means it’s still open. Not visible. Not here. But somewhere.”Selene’s eyes darkened. “And anyone—or anything—can step through?”Naeria nodded slowly. “The fabric between realms has thinned. What you did woke more than just star energy. It woke old debts. Old monsters.”Kael gripped t

  • MOONBOUND DESIRE    THE REALM BEYOND

    The moment they passed through the Gate, everything changed.Light and shadow twisted around Elira and Theron in spiraling ribbons, neither warm nor cold, neither matter nor magic. It was as though time had paused—or had never started to begin with. For a heartbeat, they floated between worlds.Then they fell.Not far.But far enough.They landed on ground that didn’t feel like earth. It was soft beneath their boots—almost like velvet moss—and glowed faintly in shades of silver and indigo. Above them, the sky was not black but a swirling ocean of stars, so close they felt they could breathe them in.Theron straightened first, his hand instinctively reaching for Elira.She took it, gripping tightly.They were not alone.---The realm stretched endlessly before them—rolling fields of starlit grasses, obsidian trees whose leaves chimed like bells, and hills that pulsed with a rhythm like breathing.But no sun. No moon.Only presence.They moved forward slowly, the path unfolding under th

  • MOONBOUND DESIRE    STARLIGHT AND SHADOWS

    The moment Elira crossed back through the Rift, the world shifted around her.The forest—so familiar, so known—now pulsed with a strange and haunting rhythm, as if the trees themselves remembered something ancient she did not. Her boots sank into moss that shimmered faintly under the moonlight, each footfall echoing with unnatural resonance.Theron emerged beside her, silent and still. The faint marks trailing his collarbone from the visions beyond the Rift hadn’t faded; they glowed softly, delicate constellations etched in silver and shadow.Neither of them spoke.They didn’t have to.What they had seen in the other realm—what had seen them—was still settling into their bones.---Selene’s arms wrapped around Elira, fierce and trembling. “You’re here. You’re whole.”Elira didn’t respond right away. She lifted her head slowly, meeting her mother’s gaze. “We brought something back,” she whispered.Kael’s hand hovered near his blade. “What does that mean?”Theron turned, eyes still dist

  • MOONBOUND DESIRE    CHILDREN OF RIFT

    The night bled silver.It wasn’t the ordinary glow of a full moon or the soft gleam of stars above the trees. No—this light moved like breath, rippling in the air, painting everything it touched with a luminous sheen. The forest was hushed, every leaf frozen in suspense.Elira stood at the threshold between the known and the unknown.At the edge of the Veil.And beyond it… a tear in the very fabric of reality.It shimmered faintly like heat mirage, vertical and silent, humming a song no ear could hear. The Rift had opened again.And this time—it was calling to her.---Theron appeared at her side, as if summoned by the same pull. His eyes glowed faintly under the moonlight, shadow magic stirring restlessly under his skin.“You heard it?” he asked.Elira nodded without looking at him. “More than that. I felt it.”There was no scent.No emotion.Just resonance—like a tuning fork humming in their bones.Like recognition.---They stood in silence for a moment, the Rift reflecting in thei

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