The Rejected Curvy Luna Queen
The air tasted of ash and iron, and every step stirred whispers-voices of the goddess's fallen devotees, their pleas etched into the wind.
"We're being watched," Isolde muttered, her wards flickering weakly. "Not by anything alive."
The thread led us to a monolith, its surface carved with a mural of twin goddesses: one crowned with stars, the other with serpents. The second sister-her name scrubbed from history, her face chiseled away. At the monolith's base lay a pool of liquid shadow, its surface rippling as I approached.
*"You've brought me a gift,"* crooned a voice from the dark-a voice that mirrored the Crone's, but deeper, hungrier.
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