The Alpha's Fated Outcast: Rise Of The Moonsinger by Ejiofor Dorcas

111 Your powers have been taken away from you.

Lylaxe

Then she drew in a deep breath.

“You are blessed with a rare gift, Lyla… you’re the first Moonsinger after 10,000 years and seeing you finally means my time is near. I’ve waited for you so long”

I stiffened as I stared at the Moon Priestess. Did she just confess that she was 10,000 years old?

“Your voice has the power to calm Ferals – one of the Dark One’s minions that took our form. They’re dangerous, lethal and cannot be killed by even the strongest of Lycan

unless you

them first.””

“O–Okay?” I nodded trying to act very surprised. I couldn’t let her know I already knew.

weaken

“You also can heal the gravest of wounds, revive and give life but most importantly, you were created to destroy the Dark One.”

“The Dark One?” I whispered.

Before the priestess could answer, a Moon Priest stepped forward from the shadows. “These are bold claims,” he said, then turned to the council “And this is not the first time in our 10,000 years wait that someone had shown up claiming to be a Moonsinger just because of some ability

“She did not show up claiming anything,” Ramsey’s voice rang out laced with irritation. “She was forced here, there’s a big difference. Besides, does she look like she wants to be here?”

First, he stopped the council from kidnapping me and now he was defending me in the open? What was Ramsey up to?

priest bowed his head “Perhaps, a demonstration

claim.”

prove the

stopped some Feral wolves without hurting people, so I’m sure your power is under control. Would you please hum for us? Not sing… just light humming and any melody that

Nathan who nodded to me from where he sat before closing my eyes. I tried to recreate the melody that had come so naturally that

know yet how to harness

hesitated but nodded.

at the centre of the hall. “Close your eyes,” he instructed. “Focus on the feeling you had when you calmed the Ferals. Remember the light, the hum within

to remind them that all I had done was scream not

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powers have been taken away from you:

two days ago and at that stone with Xander. Maybe if I try to remember the stone, or wait, the lyrics

voice steady.

stones into my mind and opened my mouth, came out. I frowned, trying again, but the connection I had felt before was gone.

the room

but по sound

to see Nathan holding back a smile, I had to lower my head, biting on my lips to stop myself from laughing too. This looked

stop you so you won’t hurt anyone in the room, the Moon Priest instructed. “Focus on your healing energy. Feel the resonance within

your

two days ago?” Ramsey’s voice rang out again. “How would she know what song

the Moon Priestess who has been quite suddenly answered. “It is a gift and we don’t know

is the

sense since he gave me that scrap of paper. Maybe that’s what I

trailed off, realizing I was about to tell these people that I once

that?” the Moon Priest

I

my eyes. “I’ll try to sing” I pushed harder, my face scrunching with effort to remember the words but