Marked By Moonlight

eep at all

me. My body felt heavier than normal, like it was trying to adapt to a shape it hadn't quite settled into ye

was alr

apped tightly around a cup that had gone untouched. She looked up a

l you," she

so," I

For a moment, we just sat there in silence. It felt so d

me," she finally sai

at the door. Not loud, but no

aces serious. They didn't come in until my mother n

last night,

didn't go int

t looked like relief. "Good

r what?"

th the others before

felt off-limits, even when I was a kid. Inside, symbols were carved into the walls: wolves,

to you," one of t

last night wasn't a coincidence. The Moon Sto

isted. "Recog

ied to the forest. Guardians. Not hun

side me. "You sa

id quietly. "The last carrier

ath. "Disappe

swered ri

shift like others do. Not entirely. Not at first.

plained

ed, "They're not strangers t

or what?"

to come

felt too small. "S

ed. "Now the forest will t

?*" I

ill swept through the room. E

t before a

ad crossed

ply toward the doo

my hand. "You

ome," he said.

ce pressed against my sens

s I'd seen f

orvin said, more to hims

" I s

. "Because once the bond completes, you

eat ignited

wasn't just

s cla

larity, that my life before t