Her Rising

Moon was the

ace, She tore herself in two....one half became lig

n, and wild, beating with a h

reath came

stinct, were Her voice, loyal, fera

hey danced between realms, timeless, cruel,

ith, not undead, but cursed descendants of sun hatin

, but never by the earth, shape shifters and fire brea

eatures never meant to rise, a forgotten race said

lived in a fragile orbit, cir

em all, the

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ruled by blo

is to b

sen is to

n by the Moon i

nd by ritual, rank, and ruin. The wolves, especially, they r

ear, a bone cracking, and soul splitting experience....

chosen, and not

ss and unyielding, where warriors are raised on war chants and silver blades. They t

who cannot shif

dead weight and

yond the veil of moun

open, the Moon grows quiet and

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YLA

just one more, s

the first t

steady, and warm, like a heartbeat that

ore through like a scream without sound. I

hold on to, I didn't want to leave, but there was no c

lt harsh, l

d shadows with faces. So many voices, the rough and war

athing right,"

said quickly, "She ju

orns

me to cry, but I didn

midwives, the younger one with trembling hands held me

he said quietly, "Sho

thing," the elde

ickly. The Lun

my mother....w

..N

me out holl

no....she w

una's

one gasped, while the others began mutt

d her child," the yo

n her eyes," the elde

ed to me, small, s

ried," someon

ed the moment

s cur

t say

at her

sil

pened

're s

at p

the

s not

silver, they gl

younger midw

m," another scolded. "We're

snapped. "And it's thi

lin

ven blink like

touching

ld, like she's

lking li

cloth over my head,

r clanked as he entered the chamber

s the

e it," the elder midwife

r added bitterly, "And some

echoed, the silence i

a girl in a world where the Crescent Fang pack e

he elder midwife said. "

e guard muttered. "But

o, like I was havoc itself. No one wanted to hold me fo

tighter, cover

fuss and that di

t like a baby,"

s to us," another said. "She does

eard and understood them and deep down, a

anking wolf entered, Beta Ronen. His scent was sharp,

asked the room, t

dn't a

I could feel his discomfor

to birth the Alph

" another

ent Fang, a girl was no heir, a girl was a disappointment, e

bomin

eep her away from the pack, when the Alpha

f she cr

someone sai

t since sh

the silen

ence that fills your ears and le

as if I didn't bel

ng's blood and just like

burden, wrapped in linen and silence, wit

before I wa

rse