Author's NarrationTalia stirs beneath her blanket, but her eyes stay shut. She's gone into trance again. This is the second trance, the next gate the Moon Goddess told her. She wakes somewhere in space, where the sky is gold and the ground feels like air. Light moves in slow waves, rising and falling like water. There is no wind, scent, or sound —but the weight of something waiting.She stands, but everybeing in her is at alert. She understands by now not to speak, because the trials don't answer to voice, only to action. The Moonstone glows faintly against her chest, and she brushes it with her fingers, warm and ticking in the same rhythm as her heartbeat.The light shifts around her, pulling itself into a straight path, and she follows it with careful steps. After walking on air for a while, the gold fades, and she finds herself in a clearing ringed by tall glass walls, each one holding a version of her. In one, she's small, clutching her mother's scarf, In another, she's in her wol
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