Fated Triad: Shadows of the Moon

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th an ethereal radiance. The tension in the very air seemed to indicate the culmination of the prophecy entwining our

l's decree had started this conflict and driven us straight toward war. Along with facing t

e ready." "The Council will come with everyt

conflicted. We are not only confronting the Council here. We s

out our surroundings, his eyes moving over the rough

ened us, Kieran, was not only a henchman; he was a major actor in this story as it was deve

, and from the shadows a man emerged-an old rival of the triplets, someone who had b

seemed familiar. Alaric was a strong Alpha with a lengthy background of resentme

mpt, "I see you've finally arrived." "Yo

arrowed. Aralic. I ou

e one dragging the strings; you had been so occupied against the Coun

incredulity and wrath. "It's you that

better even if I could employ you to reach that. Still, it went beyond the Council.

and stared angrily. "You'

t to my strategy was you, Amara. Your views, your relationship to the t

more dangerously than I had ever dreamed, my part in this prophec

s, a troop of ferocious fighters, the Council's enforcers drew their guns ready. Di

lowing with a mix of skill and force were Lucian and Darius. My hea

ation among the upheaval. Her gaze never left the chaos; she b

ape. Rather, he observed from a distance, riveted on me. His eyes gleamed with a terribl

of fighters. Kaelan and Lucian were working together, their synergy evidence of their brotherly rela

k and the air thickened with an unnatural vitality. Looking above, I saw a huge, black shadow f

the fight. Even Alaric seemed surprised, hi

ce was hardly audible,

guardian ghost constrained by old magic.

errible. Its eye appeared to cut through the anarchy,

irritation. Not! This we

d explanation-as the guardian spirit fixed on me. The spirit seemed to be tryin

my head. Demand of the guardian spirit was what?

to the night. Although I understood that facing him straight would be r

forcers of the Council battled valiantly, their will matched by the triplets'. I ent

fillment of the prophecy appeared more approaching than it had ever done. Though its function in the prophe

eaked. We battled with a desperation that suggested our divergent valu

rove the enforcers back. The intensity of the energy sent shocks through the rocks

spirit stayed, staring at me as though it were waiting for something.

sion clearly worried. "What

certainty and fear. "Unknown. Clearly, th

what the guardian spirit stands for." Maybe the secr

hanging weighty in the air. Alaric's treachery had started a series of events we still don'

sk: determining the actual nature of the prophecy and handling the shadows that loomed inside our o

the scenery softly illuminated by the moon. The fulfillment of the prophecy w

iny weighing down on us as the echoes of treachery and the