The President's Mate
I tried to call out to her, but no sound left my lips.
And then—I was gone.
Lifted.
Dragged.
I didn’t know.
All I knew was that when I opened my eyes again, I wasn’t in the library anymore.
I stood in the middle of an open field, the ground dry and cracked beneath my bare feet. The air was heavy—thick, metallic, and wrong. I tilted my head up, and my breath caught in my throat.
The sky was red.
A deep, bloody red, as if the heavens themselves were bleeding. The moon loomed above me—full, monstrous, and the same shade of blood, dripping like it wept for the world.
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