Ashbound Moon
It surged forward, faster this time, smarter—head low, shoulders rolling, eyes locked on my fist.
Dax grabbed my wrist, hard. “Choose.”
“What?” I gasped.
“Choose what you are,” he said, pulling me toward the ravine wall. “A girl who freezes, or the thing the Moon just woke up.”
“I don’t know how to be a thing,” I hissed, stumbling.
“You do,” he said. “It’s already listening.”
The pendant pulsed in my hand, a heavy beat, and I felt it—something under my skin that wasn’t muscle or bone. A presence. Vast. Patient. Like a storm waiting for a door.
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