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18: Walking on Glass
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13.03.2026 00:35:10I don’t hear most of what the doctor is saying.
Her mouth moves. Words come out. They sound calm, practiced, reassuring—things people say when they want you to believe everything is under control. But none of it sticks. It all slides past me like water over stone. My focus keeps drifting back to the feeling in my throat. The tightness is gone
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Underneath The Moonlight 64: Line That Can’t Be Uncrossed
I don’t wait for permission. That alone feels like crossing a line. The pack house is loud tonight—not with celebration or panic, but with movement. Wolves coming and going. Boots on wood. Low voices layered with tension that doesn’t break, only hums. The kind of tension that means everyone is busy pretending things are under control. I move through it anyway. Asher stands near the long table in the main room, bent over a map with two scouts. His jaw is tight, shoulders squared in a way I recognize now—not defensive, but braced. My mother sits near the hearth, wrapped in a shawl she doesn’t need, her gaze sharp despite the way her hands tremble when she thinks no one is watching. They both look up when they sense me. Not hear. Sense. That,
Underneath The Moonlight 63.5: In the Quiet Between
The pack lands are calm tonight. The wind carries the scent of pine and earth, and the forest hums quietly, as if holding its breath for something it knows is coming but isn’t yet ready to reveal. I leave the pack house behind me, careful to avoid the lingering shadows of patrols, and make my way toward the small clearing near the stream. Moonlight dappled the rocks and grass, turning the night into silver and charcoal. Asher is already there, sitting cross-legged on a flat stone at the water’s edge, his head tipped back to the sky. His expression is softened by the dim light, and for a moment I hesitate, taking in the way the moon catches on the angles of his face. He’s calm, almost serene, which is rare for him. Even in the pack house, his Alpha presence carries weight, responsibility, tension. Here, he looks… just like Asher. I step closer, letting the soft rustle of my boots on the underbrush announce me. &n
Underneath The Moonlight 63: Staying
I learned something important that day: power doesn’t announce itself. It settles. I noticed it first in the way conversations thinned when I stepped into shared spaces—not silence, not fear, but a careful recalibration. Wolves didn’t scatter. They adjusted. Bodies angled differently. Voices lowered by half a degree. Eyes tracked me without meaning to. I hadn’t done anything new. That was the problem. I crossed the training grounds while a patrol rotated out. No one stopped what they were doing, but the rhythm shifted. Commands were obeyed faster. Movements sharpened. A younger wolf stumbled during a spar and instinctively looked to me instead of his partner before correcting himself. I didn’t acknowledge it. Neither did Asher. That was deli
Underneath The Moonlight 62: The Weight Between Us
The forest thins as I approach the edge of the Midnight Pack’s territory. Every tree I pass seems to lean in a little closer, every shadow holds a quiet calculation. The wind carries no sound but the whisper of leaves. The birds that normally scatter at the slightest movement remain frozen above me, like silent sentinels. I step onto familiar ground, but it already feels alien. The scents of my pack hit me all at once: training grounds, patrols, and faint reminders of nightly conversations. Yet there’s something different in them—hesitation, unspoken tension, a subtle wariness. I inhale slowly, letting my senses stretch out, searching. They know I’ve been away. They know I’ve changed something. I should be invisible. I should slip in, observe, and remain contained. But I can’t. I won’t. As I move along the boundary t
Underneath The Moonlight 61: The Stillness That Answers Back
The forest doesn’t greet me the way it used to. There’s no gradual easing into quiet, no gentle thinning of birdsong or rustle. One step I’m moving through living sound, the next it’s as if someone drew a blade through the air and cut everything clean in half. Silence. I stop walking. Not because I hear something—but because I don’t. The absence presses in from all sides, dense and deliberate. Leaves hang motionless on branches, caught mid-breath. Even the wind feels restrained, like it’s waiting for permission to move again. I rest my hand against the rough bark of a pine, grounding myself, and try to slow my breathing. I didn’t expect pursuit. I expected violence. What I didn’t expect was this.&nb
Underneath The Moonlight 60: What the Dead Leaves Behind
No one asks me to come. That’s the first thing that feels wrong. I’m crossing the inner yard when Lucien steps out from the council wing and says my name—not sharply, not urgently, but with a weight that settles in my stomach like a stone. “Selene. We need you.” Not can we talk, not when you have a moment. Need. I stop walking. Lucien doesn’t gesture toward the training grounds or the forest. He turns toward the council chamber instead, the old stone structure near the cliff edge that the pack only uses for disputes, judgments, and things no one wants overheard. My pulse slows. Not with calm—with focus. I follow. The doors are already open. Inside, the room
Underneath The Moonlight 27: Fires Beneath the Surface
I wake up sweating. For a moment, I don’t know where I am. The ceiling above me is too high, too smooth, and pale morning light slips through tall windows. My heart pounds—not fast, but heavy, deliberate, as if it’s measu
Underneath The Moonlight 25: Fault Lines
No one touches me after. Not right away. The room stays frozen in the aftermath of splintered wood and stunned silence, like everyone is waiting for something else to break. My ears ring. My chest rises and falls too fast, breath
Underneath The Moonlight 23: Awakening Truths
The wind whips past me, carrying the faint scent of grass and earth, and I can feel my lungs burning, my chest rising and falling faster than it has in months. I’m in the open field behind the house, moonlight on my face but somehow suffocating, like it’s too much,
Underneath The Moonlight 22: Awakening
I don’t even notice how far I’ve run. My boots pound the soft spring grass, the air sharp in my lungs, my chest burning—not from exertion, but from the weight pressing down on me. Anger. Frustration. The raw, unfiltered frustration of months—no, years—of being kept in the dark.
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