LUNAR VEIL
She turned back, unsettled, the weight of the forest following her all the way to the edge of town.
That afternoon, she sat in the lodge’s common room with her laptop and a stack of borrowed books from the meager town library. The pendant lay before her on the table, wrapped in cloth, though she couldn’t resist unwrapping it every few minutes, running her fingers over the lunar sigil.
She searched for meanings—old religions, pagan rituals, lunar cults. Every keyword brought her closer to strange folklore but further from science. Most references blurred together: moon-worship, transformation myths, curses tied to blood and silver.
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