Bound to the Bloodmoon Alpha
Life, for me, was anything but soft everything was required to be tempered, strengthened, hardened against the elements.
She had only been six when her mother attempted to hack out her power via her blood. I had arrived too late to interrupt the initial stages of the ritual, though not too late to halt the conclusion. I still saw that night when I let my mind drift - the circle of ash and bone the shining, cruelly effective knife in my mother’s hand as she stood over six-year-old Maya who watched with me, only me, as her life bled out.
I had killed everyone in that clearing bar Melissa.