the cave walls. Selene stared, unmoving, as her mother's ghostly image f

. He alw

slicing deeper tha

adying hand on her

did she say that? How ca

id. "Or rather, your memory

ire. "This is insane. I'm not

he Moon doesn't wait fo

, Selene wasn't just seeing her mother

blin

nly, she

through cracks in the walls. A ch

y six years old, clutching her k

e young Selene crie

breath shorten. She

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had bur

oaked in black. His face was unreadable, his ey

to scream-but the memory p

elene and whispered som

he

the back room-where her

ard, shoving open

in the shadows, hands gl

take her,

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Selene had loved

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rotect me," she whisp

s a co

ing, glowing faintly now with the

oarse. "She tried to

. "But you do

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t memories. They awaken the parts of you that were se

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it brea

e now. "Then I'll r

prepare. The next trial will test your w

breath

with Kael?

it, you'll reclaim your full

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d her. "W

hrough the cave. The s

cent rune split in two, revealing an

t supposed to face this t

in, casting Kael's

as c

ark glowed

the cave

y-a chilling, broken sound tha

ned to her

foun