MINE BEFORE THE BLOOD MOON
and the feeling wasn’t human, wasn’t even his, it came from something older, the bond itself.
Kael turned away immediately, launching back into the fight as though pretending he hadn’t felt it too, and I should’ve been relieved but frustration burned inside me instead as the battle raged and the pressure in my chest kept growing, hotter, impossible to ignore. I fell to one knee, pain ripping through my body, every muscle tightening, vision blurring, and a scream tore from my throat. The fighting stopped, not completely, just enough for everyone to look, as the ground beneath me began glowing, silver light spreading across the snow, the crescent moon necklace burning brighter than the moon it