Moonbound
“Because you weren't the first two.”
Emily went completely still.
Kael whispered, “Mother…”
The First Mother looked at him.
“You remember now.”
Kael's jaw tightened.
“Yes.”
“Then tell her.”
Kael looked at Emily.
For several seconds, he said nothing.
Then he took a breath.
“Before you and I existed as we understand ourselves, there were two forces.”
Emily waited.
“One was creation.”
His eyes moved toward the enormous wolf.
“The other was memory.”
Emily frowned.
“Memory?”
“The ability of existence to remember itself. Every world that was ever born carried a memory of what came before. Every star, every creature, every soul. But before there were worlds, there was only one place.”