127 Can the melody rise again?

127 Can the melody rise again?

Lyla

On the first day of my training, Ramsey didn’t show up.

I should be glad – I tried to convince myself but I felt annoyed all of a sudden. What was I expecting, he was not someone who kept to his words.

“I know I said we’ll train for an hour every morning but I’ll leave after training you for thirty minutes. I have a lot of things to check and the only way I can…”

“It’s fine, Nathan,” I stopped him midway. “Just do the best you can. I’m not exactly in the mood for long training either.”

He nodded.

In the next few minutes, Nathan taught me basic training tactics and routines. Some of them I was already familiar with. Halfway, he got a call from his father and had to leave. Left on my own, I practised with everything I’d learnt that morning.

After I was done with the training ground, I decided to fill the hours by doing something else. For a while, all

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this talk about me being the Moonsinger has sounded like a mirage to me and an attempt to trap me in this world but today, I decided to try to find out what it

was.

I made my way to Blue Ridge Library – although there had been a few renovations, it was still as I

remembered. This used to be my place of escape after enduring sessions of insults from my mother

especially.

I’ll come to the library, hide in one of the far aisles and cry myself out. I smiled fondly, as I greeted the librarian who recognized me immediately before entering. The section on Moonsingers wasn’t hard to find – it occupied an entire wall of carefully preserved volumes with a sign that read ‘fragile‘ on the top of the

shelf.

that

into one of the oversized leather armchairs

a

Moonsingers. Basic information –

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profile and the last Moonsinger was 10,000 years ago. I picked up another book titled ‘Echoes

Page after page told similar stories – they all had struggled with purpose and in the quest for it, they had stumbled on a role given to them by the goddess.

wanted to

it easy for them to bank on that love and

I came across a chapter of the last Moonsinger – a man named Aeron

of Aeron’s experiences was exactly everything I used to see in my

Ferals.

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their predecessor’s life, most commonly manifesting as dreams of being the previous Moonsinger. These dreams serve as both warning and preparations, an indication that the time has come for the new Moonsinger to take up the mantle of defending the land‘

I found something

the account by Aeron the last Moonsinger who I was supposed to be connected to, according to the dreams of connection but Aeron’s account matched with what I had seen in my dreams and also, Neriahs‘.

from the Dark One but Neriah… after she had refused to be mated to

in a field filled with her dead ones. Members of the pack, her mother, her father, her sister

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them. I paused for

two different people? If my calculations were right, she was in a thing with three

a vision of both Aeron’s life and Neriah’s” I murmured to myself flipping

fragments of my imagination – they were visions of Aerions

an account from Neriah herself ‘Until a Moonsinger kills the source, and

to understand what it meant. The narration below said

had ever completed their

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Dark One and to stop his existence but without their powers, they would never be able to kill him, that’s why he can live and comes back to

a Moonsinger’s gifts rendering them powerless and none had been able to reclaim it.

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