°•♡Chapter 15~ Moments Under Moonlight

My heart felt heavy and my muscles were still sore from training. But it wasn’t just the physical exhaustion that was keeping me awake.

It was the memories.

As I sat on the edge of my bed, my eyes tired and fixed on an empty wall, all I could think about was the next trial. It had been weeks since the first and the second was drawing closer.

The first trial—the Trial of Will— it had torn me open in ways I hadn’t been prepared for. I had thought I was healed, that I was ready to face my past demons. But apparently healing didn't come so easily, the past still haunted me and the trial had forced me to relive it.

Every raw moment, every betrayal, every pain. Lucien’s face had haunted me in that chamber, his voice twisting around my doubts.

But I’d made it. I survived.

When it was over and I'd walked out, it was easy to pretend that what hapoened within those chambers hadnt gotten to me. But deep down, a part of me never left.

Outside, Ronan had been waiting.

“You did well,” he’d said sof