The Underworld Trials of Luna
Laila continues, nodding to me, “even if they didn’t tell you, it’s so strange that you don’t know. Everyone in my world knows this story – we hear it as a story in our cradles.”
I sip at my coffee, quietly settling into my chair in anticipation of a good tale, and Anton likewise settles next to me.
“Thousands of years ago,” Laila says, conjuring a pen and paper from thin air, “the God of Death and the Goddess of Life won a great victory against their father, the God of Darkness. They wrenched half of the planet away and made it their own Kingdom, the Underworld.”