Powers of the Moon Bearer

light faded quickly, throwing long veins of exploring shadows through the dense forest that flanked her new home. In her

The cabin was bequeathed to her by her parents; even as they were alive they had not once brought the property to her attention. Luna only discove

Luna's life had gone through a rough patch of unfortunate events. She had lost her parents in a f

as her last remnant connecting her and the pa

rself, "guess I will f

es. Inside the home was old furniture, but looked carefully preserved-frozen in time to indulge in memory-laden nostalgia. A very heavy stone fireplace sat on one

of her parents-far younger, far happier-framed. Picking it up, she traced her thumb along the edge of her m

d with nightfall came the emotion of fear. The forest beyond the cabin, once so calm,

ably just her imagination-the classic narrative feel! Af

she th

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the last several hours exploring the cabin, concluding it had nothing odd about it-except those strange symbols carved into the woo

light on the trees. The trees glistened from this casting glow, and suddenly, she

with that! She let her attention return to the fire she had started in the fireplace. The flames swayed and danced around-spar

had, after all, never lived alone, let alone lived alone in the woods. It was normal

pierced the

somewhere in the depths of the forest. Luna had heard wolves before, but this was somehow different

oon, their cries filled the night air as thoug

clearing in front of the cabin, but the nearby forest lay steeped in darkness. Bruis

the dark creatures gathered in the shadows hypostatically like eerily wild beasts. They looked like wolves-Luna thought at first,-but then a ne

ct exhaustively, but they were unmistakably human, albeit broad-shouldered, tall, and a s

She did not know what she had seen, but every instinct told her to run, to h

Whoever - or whatever - was

ind raced. What should she do? Could she get out through t

ck, deep and rough, undeniably human. "W

old, she was not o

softer, almost euphori

t stop. The only thing was that the inside of the cabin creak

un

ped. The voice

you know

for you." The voice was mu

un

nheard, during the long silence, when she

eyond the door was full of sor

e didn't even know what they were,

urgent. "You don't understand. You're in dange

na barely

ord, sent a new wave of f