CHAPTER TEN
There went my ticker skipping another beat. I spun around to face the pool and my reflection showed me with one important addition: a small crescent moon-shaped mark on my forehead. My mouth dropped open and I furiously rubbed my skin as Grandmother had done. It remained.
The ripples in the pool reminded me that I’d seen this mark before. That last time I had been standing in Dadan’s secretive island with a moon hovering over me.
I swallowed the lump in my throat and tried not to sound panicked. “What is it?”
Grandmother sidled up to my right side and leaned forward to examine the mark. Her face was scrunched up and her eyebrows knitted together. “It appears to be some sort of rune mark.”
Don’t panic, Anna. That doesn’t sound too bad. “Is that good or bad?”
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