Chapter 042
Emilia's POV
For a brief moment, I was unable to determine whether the shaking beneath my feet was caused by the earth or by my own internal disintegration.
Jagged cracks of silver light bled into the darkness as the sky above me ripped open like torn flesh. A thunderous roar shook the atmosphere, rattling my bones. It wasn't thunder. It was something older, more angular.
I gasped and clutched my chest. The thickened air tasted like burnt metal, heavy and bitter. My lungs burnt with each breath. My heart slammed painfully against my ribs.
She emerged from the broken heavens.
The Goddess of the Moon.
She was beyond mortal description.
She wasn't moving. She wasn't in the air.
She was going down.
Like a judgement written in light, it descends.
Silver bled from her very
