Blood of the Black Moon
she said, and almost smiled, and then didn’t, because the Sanctum was waking.
The basin filled with light.
Not fire—pre-fire, the bright, hungry possibility of it. It lifted in a sheet, hovering, turning, tasting the room. When it faced Kaelira, the tether snapped taut enough to steal her breath.
Taren stumbled back. “It knows you.”
“It is me,” she said before she meant to.
The light tilted like a head. Voices braided through it—children, kings, wolves, witches. None were words; all were understanding.
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