Three Alphas, One Luna
His face was hidden beneath a cowl, but I saw his hands move confidently, arranging bowls of ash and small vials of jeweled liquids.
I stood before him, cloak undone to reveal the braided strands of my hair, the sharp angles of my cheekbones, the faint tremor in my hands. Despite the danger—and perhaps because of it, I felt every nerve alive. Tonight was the night I would change my fate.
The priest looked up slowly, his voice a rasp that echoed in the chamber. “Sebastian Riggs,” he intoned, “you seek to perform a severing ritual of great power.”
He looked up at me, eyes bright in the torchlight. “You understand what you ask?” he murmured. His voice was a rasp, as if he spoke through centurie
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