เข้าสู่ระบบMENODORA'S POVThe chest clicks open and I brace myself for the unexpected, but it never comes…no dramatic explosion, no sudden flash of hot white light…just a quiet click. Inside the chest is a stack of letters, yellowed and dusty from the length of time, beside them is a small pocket sized journal and a piece of dark blue fabric embroidered with silver thread.Elira reaches for the journal with trembling fingers.Flipping open the first page, there is only one sentence.“To future Elira, if you ever find the way back to your destiny…” Elira starts to read aloud. A sharp microscopic hiccup of air escapes her lips, the tiny movement pulls her shoulder tight and her fingers grow tense around the journal. The sight of it feels like a leaden weight settling squarely on my breast bone making each inhale feel like lifting a stone.She turns the page and the handwriting catches my attention. I move closer to trace a finger over it…it is unmistakably feminine and delicate.“Lysandra," the Ke
MENODORA'S POV Somewhere beyond the newly opened doorway, an ancient spirit stirred. Something has been patiently waiting for this day and we are about to find out exactly what it is. It may have been nothing more than ten seconds that we stand there peering cautiously down the doorway, but in the silence and the darkness, it feels like several long minutes. The doorway stands open before us, an open invitation to the darkness that waits on the other side. This is no ordinary darkness…something about it feels ancient, like whatever lies beyond it has been holding its breath for centuries and is now being allowed to take a long needed exhale.With shaky fingers still wrapped around the silver pendant, Elira stares into the darkness.“Are you sure about this Elira?" I ask her softly, stepping in closer when she doesn't answer."Did my mother know about this place?” She is picking her words with great difficulty now, eyes not straying from the doorway for a single second. Like a fear th
MENODORA'S POV Orvax is already sprinting towards the door before the words are out of my lips.“Don't move, just stay here…” I hear him saying but I pay no attention to him, already struggling to get on my feet.“I'm coming with you." “Menodora…" he starts, his hands pausing over the doorknob. “No…don't give me that voice.” I know he only calls me by my name when he considers the situation too serious.“You don't get to tell me to stay behind anymore…not after everything we have been through together.”I see the slight tick in his jaw and the sharp flicker in his eyes. For a moment I think he might consider arguing with me but instead, he lets out a slow puff of air…almost like he is releasing whatever pent up tension he did not realize he had.“The outer wards, someone tried to test them last night and we don't know who did.”I can feel a cold lead weight materialize behind my navel dragging my viscera downwards towards my shoes even as air vanishes from my lungs at the same mome
MENODORA’S POVThe first thing that stands out to me when I wake up is the sun. It's now standing high in the cloud above the room where we are staying. The second thing I notice is the empty space beside me. I feel it with my hands and the coolness of it tells me Orvax has been gone for quite a while. The last that stands out to me is the broad smile I can feel on my cheeks.It takes several seconds to realize just how broadly I am smiling. I stare at the ceiling, confused at the unfamiliar feeling of warmth spreading from my chest to my hands and all over my body. This feels like the first time in forever that I have woken up without my mind working in overdrive. No thoughts of the Blood moon or prophecies or my parents or even the people who want me dead.A memory flits across my mind and I feel a sudden wave of warmth, more intense than earlier, crawl up my neck and settle hot and heavy beneath my eyes.“Oh dear mother of the Moon," I curse beneath my breath as more memories of th
ORAVX'S POV“Let's get out of here,” I say to Menodora, my voice coming out rougher than I intended. Grabbing her hands in mine, I interlock our fingers as we run down the hill, our cares and worries forgotten in the wind.“I haven't felt this free in a long time," she says when her laughter dies down into little hiccups.“Then let's enjoy tonight to the fullest…who knows what tomorrow might bring?”“The others might start getting worried if we stay much longer,” I continued nudging her slowly.“But I don't want to go just yet…” she whines and I can't help the smile that tugs at my lips.“I know you don't want to, but we need to.”She grumbles a little before she agrees that we head back.When we approach the door we walked out of not so long ago, I feel Menodora's shoulders go rigid beside me. I give her fingers a soft squeeze to reassure her that I'm still right here by her side and she turns to offer a slight smile before continuing to the door.“You're here?” The Keeper asks “I
ORAVX'S POVMenodora raises her brows when I sit and I realize it doesn't escape her attention that I am not sitting close to her but a few inches away.“Does everyone always expect that you know what to do in every situation," she asks, leaning back on her hands."Most of the time.” I don't know where this is going but I reply to her anyway."And do you always have the answers?" “Truthfully, I don't know what to do more than half the time…but fear of letting down those who trusted me enough to defy my father keeps me going.”Her jaw goes slack and her lips part, forgetting how to form words. I guess she wasn't expecting me to be so honest with her, but really, what's there to hide?“That's the problem with being an Alpha," I continued, eyes turned towards the city. Beside me, Menodora listens, hanging on to my every word. “People often assume that strength means certainty and that if you're strong enough, then it means you have answers to everything." "And when you don't have these
MENODORA'S POV“No… that's impossible,” one of the council members says, but right before their very eyes, it is already happening.The first sight that catches my attention is the sight of my fingers, because extending from where my nails should be are now lethal-looking claws, long and sleek.“Be
MENODORA’S POV “What did he mean by the moon makes no mistakes?" My head spins from the pressure of trying to understand what his words mean. "The same moon that rejected me?! The same moon that never once spoke to me in my years of isolation?! Who is she to judge me now?!” Those are the words I w
MENODORA’S POVThe Alpha's gaze lands on me, heavy and piercing right through me like a hot knife piercing through butter.“You…,” his tone holds the same accusation I see in the eyes of everyone around me. "You were found at the scene. Do you care to explain?”"This is nothing but a pure coinciden
MENODORA’S POVThe opportunity came faster than I anticipated…On the night that changed everything, the air felt similar to the night that I was born. The tension and uneasy watching, almost like the forest was waiting for something, but at the time, I wasn't sure what it was waiting for.I just f







