Chapter 428

Lanie

I was alone with the scent of the forest and what felt like a breeze across my face. The trees sang in low

murmurs as the wind passed through their branches. Peace, calm, serenity…

when was the last time I’d felt any of that? So long ago that I couldn’t recall a time when I’d felt only

comfort. No anxiety.

“Moon Goddess?”

I reached for her and got only silence in return.

Slowly, I turned in a circle. I knew I had to be experiencing this in my own mind, and that she hadn’t

transported me physically. I wore a soft gown of pale-green fabric, knotted at the shoulders. Around my waist,

a golden cord nipped the dress against my hips, and the hem was so long only the tips of my toes peeped out.

My hair cascaded down my back in ripples and waves.

I thought I must look something like a goddess,myself.

I wanted to run. To fight. To scream and argue.

I wanted answers. Safety. Knowledge.

But Goddesses don’t answer to those they protect; I could only wait for her to show me what she wanted

me to see.

and set, and the Moon

of minutes. I walked through the trees and

My hand rested on her head,and I

trees parted to show me a meadow

the light of her sister Sun?

me in the Moon’s silver glow. Right now, the

meadow.

licked. Then she ran away.

desperate happening to my body. Hands on

Katie, Lanie, Katie, Lanie.

Who was I?

had I

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Who would I become?

of soft grass while the flowers crushed underneath me and cast

than her sister, and to some, less powerful. She guided and blessed the

back arched as a groan slipped

my bottom lip,

without protection,

whispered the Moon Goddess. You

the ground and the grass and the crushed

bathed me in their lights.

Moon, I felt strength and power,

an edge of fear. A promise of punishment,if I did not obey. “I don’t understand, Moon Goddess! Please, as your humble ser vant, I beg of you to

head with a chime like bells. Like the soft hush of

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