I don’t know how long I slept. My body was stiff as if I had been sleeping for days. I sat up slowly, flinching as very muscle protested. It was so strange; I remembered the creatures in the woods, every word of my conversation with the Goddess, but as I looked at my arm, my stomach, there were no wounds to be seen, no scars, nothing. Had it really been a dream then? Like she said?
“It’s all a dream. When you wake, you’ll be back where you belong.”
But I wasn’t where I belonged. I knew that now. I didn’t belong here in Draumur. I was stolen from wherever I came from to attempt to finish a thousand-year lover’s quarrel. I was brought here to fight Eric in a final battle as the champion of the Moon Goddess. And Eric was aware of it. He knew everything and told me nothing. I felt tears well
