Ruby
Darkness.
It wrapped around me like a thick fog, pulling me under, and drowning me in its endless void.
I was floating weightless suspended in a space that felt both infinite and empty. I tried to move, but my body wasn’t my own.
Was I… dead?
No.
Somewhere, in the farthest reaches of my consciousness, I felt something, someone.
A voice.
Not just any voice.
It was soft yet commanding, ethereal yet familiar.
“Wake up, my child.”
A blinding silver light pierced through the darkness, and suddenly, I wasn’t floating anymore.
I was standing.
And before me was a woman unlike any I had ever seen.
She was bathed in the glow of the full moon, her silver-white hair cascading down her back, her eyes burning with divine power.
I gasped. The Moon Goddess.
She smiled at me, warmth ra
