Moonshadow: The Full Saga
Laid her palm over the place where the Moonstone shard pulsed in her chest.
“I am here,” she said quietly, to the ash, to the shimmer, to the Moon. “I am Luna of Moonshadow. Child of earth and sky. Bearer of your Stone. Holder of your old blood. If something would come through this place, it comes through *me.* Not around me. Not behind.”
The shimmer in the center of the circle thickened, as if her words had given it shape.
The ash-scent intensified.
Smoke without flame curled up from the blackened ground, coiling inward, merging into a column of gray.