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