Lily’s Realms: Secrets of Magic and Destiny
True gold — like something that had never belonged to earth.
Their eyes were worse.
Blue, but not sky blue. Not ocean blue.
The kind of blue you only saw in glacial ice or the center of a star.
Their father’s eyes.
Even if no one dared say it out loud.
Lily learned early that the world feared what it didn’t understand.
She learned it from the way villagers went quiet when she walked past.
From the way animals either bowed their heads… or ran.
And from the way her sister looked at her.
Luna was beautiful in the way moonlight is beautiful — cold, distant, untouchable. Blonde hair, pale blue eyes, skin like polished marble. People adored her.