Ashes of a Vow
Moonlight spilled through the floor-to-ceiling windows, stretching across the marble floor. I knelt on the balcony, applying a special herbal balm to the skin beneath my ribs—to the scars left by silver weapons thirteen years ago. They still ached.
The scars always ached under the full moon, a cruel reminder of a past I fought to forget.
"You're still using that balm."
I didn't turn around. Kaelen's footsteps were loud on the cold marble.
"I thought you'd forgotten that pain," he said. The anger was gone from his voice, replaced by something I couldn't quite place.