When we are one
First, we must survive.
A flicker of memory moves through me. Anika, no more than a child, hiding bruises under ash and grime, her hands bloodied not from battle—but from servitude. Her tears tasted of betrayal, of loneliness, of forgotten birthright. Even then, I was there. Dormant. Waiting. Praying the moon goddess would one day call me forward.
And she did. When Anika bled for the first time from battle—not fear.
I remember the exact second our bond ignited like the stars collapsing into nova. I took form within her, divine and untamable, carved from shadow and moonlight, wings woven from forgotten lullabies of the divine realm.
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