Moonlit Secrets
Aria sat at the table still, the scroll spread before her, the ink dried to permanence.
“You were brilliant,” he said quietly, placing his hand on her shoulder.
She didn’t answer at once. Her fingers traced the parchment’s edge. “Do you think they’ll pass it?”
“I think,” he said, crouching beside her, “they already did the moment you rose.”
She turned to him, her eyes brighter than the torches, not with fire but with peace. “I didn’t write this for them. I wrote it for the girl I used to be—and for every wolf who was told they weren’t enough.”
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