Chosen by war

The Dead

ever meant

wide as I gasped. Suffocating darkness closed in. Heavy, palpable blackness, not the gentle,

pulled out from the bottom of an ice lake, drowning. My hands found familiar, silky sh

was dark, the familiar furniture was painted in silver color by the moonlight that flowed thro

lines of sorrow and suffering, were gone. I raised a quivering hand and traced

rved as a continual reminder of Darius's rejection. Now, however, there was simply

ears. I had been dead for five years.

icy steel gliding between my ribs. "You were never meant to survi

ueezing my eyes tight, but it was like a

y soul, my devotion, my heart. And he

different," I sai

gh and dense that he would never be able to get to me again. I would

ave happened? Why had the Moon Goddess given me a second chan

tle rustling. My senses sharpened as I fr

, a person stood with their face hidden by the shadows. However, there was

was no more than a whi

ft alone with my terror as they just

. I couldn't get rid of the sensation that I was being watch

needed to find out what was

the house without making any noise. Tension permeated the air, and the

ide into the refreshing night air. Long, unsettling shadows we

es, I inhaled deeply. I had to think str

oice burst th

ri

yes gleamed in the darkness as he stood in the shadows. He seemed old

here?" With a quiver

staring into my eyes

to talk about," and stepp

added quietly, "but you must

" With hatred in my

head away. "That's wh

s he stepped closer. It was a suffe

ll you again, Aria," in a frantic to

him appeared before I could reply. Gleaming sil

ling his wolf. He met the attacker's assault

Fast and nimble, the attacker's actions were lethal. The

I had never seen before, his wolf a seething beast. However,

ssailant suddenly delivered a punc

the assailant turned to confront me. Through the

er meant to s

ged into the moonlight. My

the one.