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

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127 Can the melody rise again?

Lyla

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

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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

one of the oversized leather armchairs

a quiet corner.

naming of all the Moonsingers. Basic information – like name, name of

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them attached to their profile and the last Moonsinger was 10,000 years ago. I picked up another book titled ‘Echoes of the Moonsingers: A History of

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after page told similar stories – they all had struggled with purpose and in the quest for it, they had stumbled on a

if anything, I wanted acceptance. I wanted to be loved but from the book’s description, the Moonsingers were quite

by everyone making it easy for them to bank on that love and support when their powers

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chapter of the last Moonsinger – a man named Aeron

a strange sensation washed over me. The description of Aeron’s experiences was exactly everything I used to see in

Ferals.

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sign of a Moonsinger’s awakening is the Dreams of Connection – visions of their predecessor’s life, most commonly manifesting as dreams of being the previous Moonsinger. These dreams serve as

I found something strange.

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

a warrior and he did it to protect his pack and our world from the Dark One but Neriah… after she had refused to be mated to the Dark One, he

filled with her dead ones. Members of the pack,

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The one where a voice had blamed me for killing them. I paused for a minute, closed the book and tried to digest the fact that Neriah had two lovers.

she share Xander with someone else? Or was there another person – two different people? If my calculations were right, she was in a thing

the book again. “So, I had a vision of both Aeron’s life and Neriah’s” I murmured

this time, my recurring dreams hadn’t just been fragments of my imagination – they were visions of Aerions and Neriah’s life.

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a Moonsinger kills the source, and takes up a status with the Dark one, we would

understand what it meant. The narration below said none of

completed their

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without their powers, they would never be able to kill him, that’s

Dark One could suppress a Moonsinger’s gifts rendering them powerless and none had been able to reclaim it. It also said, that Neriah