The Heart of a Luna
I sense Haldor behind me, his fingers curling around the hilt of his broad sword, getting ready to decapitate the witch.
“Yes,” I answer at length. “Once before The Towers allowed me entry. Only long enough to complete a spell.”
“Hm.” The witch smiles, and for some reason it makes my skin crawl. “The little Greyheart babe you offered to it, right?”
“Yes.”
She nods. “Nine months later, a new little Greyheart was born, made on the very night you sacrificed his brother to the triad.
Her mother took the afterbirth and buried it at the base of The Body, begging The Goddess to keep her daughters, and all the daughters who came after her safe from the harm of men.”
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