The Underworld Trials of Luna
“What’s up with this little gremlin you’ve brought around to meet the family. Did she like, capture you when you were unable to answer her riddles three?”
“He’s a riddle for you, you skinny rat,” Midnight snarls, glaring hard at me, her eyes going dark as pits and shadows starting to leak from her as she grips her fork, a bite of cake trembling at its edge. “Who’s a powerful shadow sorceress who you should try not to piss off? You get one guess.”
“Why are you so weird?” I bite out, staring at her with wide eyes.
Midnight gasps, appalled, and then a shadow snaps out from her, smacking me lightly on the nose, like being flicked with a fingertip. I yelp and sit back hard in my chair, a snarl al