THE REJECTED LUNA
They used their own brown blood to light it because they did not have my anointed blood yet.
Branch caught.
Not orange flame. Black flame. Cold flame that gave no heat but took heat, tall, rising ten meters high, black and white and green pink like northern lights but wrong, inverted.
And black flame light hit lake and ice cracked everywhere at once, loud like gunshots, and white village cabins on other side groaned as black light touched fur roofs and tried to drink.
And in middle of lake, where I and Jax ran holding hands, ice under our fur boots cracked in circle around us, trapping us on small island of ice that was shrinking as black flame drank light and heat that held ice together.