Bloodmoon Rising
“It’s not after the thread. It wants us to push the gold light harder. The faster we go, the faster it goes. We’re not helping our people, we’re just feeding it faster.”
He looked at me, and I saw the answer hit him the same moment it hit me.
I stopped.
The mark faltered, halfway through separating, and suddenly, both threads hung suspended above the clearing. Not falling, not dividing. The voice pressed in, hungry for the moment of hesitation.
“So what do we do?” Malek panted. “Can’t speed up, can’t slow down, can’t stop it without cutting everyone else out.”
I stared at the two threads tangled above us, gold and dark, wrapped together the way they’d always been. Hiding together, buried tog
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