All Chapters of The Stand-In Luna: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

AshleyDaisy's cheeks turned pink when we all kept looking at her without saying anything. It was the first time I had seen her anywhere else asides from her room or close to her quarters.“What are you doing here, Daisy?” Zane was by her side in an instant almost lifting her into his arms like she was a newborn. “You should be at home.”“It's lonely up there, brother. And I thought you said I could go outside now when I wanted to?’“I meant outside the house, not to come to the Sacred Grove,” said Zane, stil avoiding looking at me. “Why did you come here?”“Well, at school yesterday, a lot of my friends didn't come, and the teacher said that they were sick, so I…I wanted to come and see them and tell them to get well soon,” she said sweetly, looking at her feet. Her hair reminded me so much of her brother's. Her brother, who was at that moment angry with me.“It was not right to come here, Daisy. What if you got sick too?”“I'm sorry. I just wanted to see them.” She lifted her head a

Ashley Preparing for the Summer Solstice Festival was equally exciting and worrying. Exciting because I longer to learn more about the Lycan Tribe and their history. Worrying because like Alicia said, it was going to be an opportunity to prove myself as a fitting queen. With all the rumors flying around about how Zane had grown weaker since his curse had been broken, the best thing I could do for him was to show up at my best and prove to them that there was more to Zane than his former powers. That he was still a worthy king.The night before the festival, Zane and I had stayed up late, simply basking in each other's presence, and although I had a lot pf questions to ask regarding what was to come, there was a big issue nagging at me.“Why haven't you marked me?” I asked him, immediately biting my lips at the way everything seemed to grow a little tense.His arm sat comfortably over my waist as we laid on our sides, facing one another. His other arm formed a headrest for me, warm a

Ashley I didn't have to do much to get ready for the festivities. I simply put on a little makeup and merely straightened out my dress. I wasn't sure when our guests were going to start arriving, but either ways I didn't want to be caught unawares, so I headed first for the the festival and decided to simply wait until our esteemed guests started pouring in. There was a huge fire right at the centre of the clearing where the festival was taking place already. Some people were already nimble on their feet, dancing with wild abandon around the fire, giving their thanks to the moon goddess for being able to witness yet another Summer Solstice.I watched from my place at the seats reserved for Zane and I, enjoying the lull of the drums and the flutes warping around each other in perfect harmony. The tunes were soft, but also exciting, spurring people into leaps and bounds. Bodies moved energetically, in tune with the wonderful music. It was something I had never heard before myself, bu

Ashley The paper shook in my hands as I read the words over and over again. I would know those words anywhere. After all, it was all I knew about for the past decade. Every morning, afternoon and night had been plagued with reminders of the great prophecy. The same prophecy that had set this whole course of events in motion. The very reason behind why I was so brutally mistreated.The first sentence, I knew of. But the second one appeared unfamiliar. I wasn't sure I'd seen it before. Was it by any chance the remaining portion of the prophecy that Luna Elena had obsessed about for years before her disappearance? “A new king rises upon the land, and the Luna becomes the Goddess,” I read undee my breath, trying to make sense of it all. I couldn't find any sense in the order of the words, but maybe it was because I stood in a place filled with distracting music.Someone touched my shoulders and I jumped, turning around as I folded the paper up into my palm and put my hands behind my ba

Ashley In the wee hours of the morning the following day, I quietly slipped out of bed while Zane still slept, quickly dressed, and left to see Alicia. She was going to be surprised at my visit, but I had come up with a plan so suddenly that even I myself didn't know I was going to be doing certain things until I found myself doing them. Alicia was my first target because she mentioned once that she came from a bloodline of people who practiced the mystic arts. Tarot reading, Palm reading, and even seeing visions were things that people from her family had experienced at one point in time. It was what made her reputation as a healer even more powerful. She was respected because she came from a long line of spiritually enlightened people, who were considered to be blessed by the Goddess herself. I didn't know exactly if she was going to have the answers I was seeking, but she might have been able to point me in the right direction. As I anticipated, she was already at the Sacred G