Rejected By My Mate, Crowned By The Moon

sted the horizon when

up,

in deep blue with silver etchings that caught the light, she looked every bit the leg

asked groggily, brush

" she said cryptically. "For one chosen by the Moon, each

mething heavy in my che

smiled an

oll

grew thick and tall, ancient things with roots that buckled the earth and leaves that whispered names I didn't unde

th, black stones surrounded a pool of water so still, it looked like pol

re it begins

round. "Be

," she said. "An

her fingers touched the surface, silver light spread across t

e pool," she said.

e w

r tr

"And what if

ne. "Then you'l

at had been marked, the part that had already survived t

ped fo

e higher, until it lapped at my shoulders. The silver gl

't in the w

l directions. But these mirrors didn't reflect just my i

g Kael through the training field, my h

s hands braid my hair one last t

t I was rejected - again an

aw something I

above my head. Wolves bowed at my feet. A kingdom of light a

utu

a l

the pieces of my past, my pain, and my fear rained around me like falling stars

broken,* I

ered in a whisper of wind

ision

water dripping from my f

ted silently

eathless. "All the versions of me

. Sight - not of others, but of the self. You c

l, the air biting at my soaked

... aw

es next?"

and proud in her eyes. "

It felt smaller - not because it had changed, but because I had. I lit th

ide in the shadows

I question why I

n had m

ld rise t