ra
of the Shadow Forest
le's gaslamps disappeared behind
h met my cheek, and the damp soil soaked into the ruin of my dress. The agony in m
or rest, my soul screaming for death. But some stubborn, dying ember of defiance kept me moving. If I was going to die, I wou
e through the thick ca
th birthday
hift
eaves filled my mouth, stifling the scream before it could fully form. The sound of my own
ds now violently severed, the process multiplied its t
coarse fur began
my fresh blood drif
e snapping
rowls surr
I saw three massive wolv
wild expressions, a
were
ling my weakness a
, but my shifting bod
ed at me, its jaws sna
the dark clouds in the
ht of the Moon Goddess
e in my veins s
y a rush of ancie
epths of my soul. "Awaken, daughter of the frost.
into a small,
uscles expanding wit
s not bro
ding, flawles
ssive paws, towering
a Whit
illuminated by the
hing presence that carri
to the dirt, whimpering and
ot even lift
oing howl that shook th
white lightning, a silent
the first Rogue's neck
s tearing through the other tw
forest, broken only by
of the water and lo
The shadow it cast was as vast as a hillock, its coarse, silver-white p
t. I was never mea
blood from m
to the moon and m
anyone trample o
an ancient call that resonated in my new blood. I would seek out the sacred places of the Goddess, train unti
Three years would pass before I saw those black flagstones again. And when I retu
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