Beneath The Moon's Bite
That was where I stood, the Moon Trial ring.
Kael, the rogue leader, stood just outside the circle. He was a big man with scars across his face.
“The circle is charged with lunar ash.” he said, his voice echoing.
“It will amplify what is in you, if you are what you claim to be, the moon’s power will answer, you will make the ash glow with your own light, you have until the moon reaches the shaft above.” He pointed upward.
High in the cavern roof, a narrow shaft was cut, a perfect beam of cold, white moonlight shone straight down, inching slowly across the stone floor toward the edge of my circle. It was a timer.
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