The Luna Queen's Blood Oath
It was gone as quickly as it came, replaced by a patronizing, dismissive smile that did not reach her eyes.
“The Great Uprising?” she repeated, her voice a soft, airy thing that grated on my raw nerves. She gave a little laugh, a sound like dry leaves skittering across stone. “Alpha Daven, you must understand, stories like that are a dime a dozen around Bloodwood territory. They're boogeyman tales, things mothers whisper to their pups to frighten them into behaving. 'Finish your dinner, or the Death Goddess will rise and claim you.' It’s a myth. A piece of dark folklore, nothing more.”
Her words were meant to be soothing, to paint me as a high-strung Alpha spooked by children's ghost stories
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