Moonlit Secrets
Moonroot burned in Mira’s hand, but even its light was dulled here.
Then the shadows came.
They rose from the earth—not solid, not smoke. Wraiths in fractured armor. Faces blurred by memory. Eyes like coals in snow.
“We died for nothing,” they whispered. “Forgotten.”
Aria stepped forward. “You were not forgotten. You were only… buried.”
The lead spirit, a towering wolf-warrior, surged toward her. Visions flooded her mind—betrayal, shattered truces, a Luna slain by her blood.
“We are the war that never ended,” the wraith said, voice a dirge. “We are the wounds you never healed.”
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