Nymera’s POV The first few days after my father's death blurred together so completely. I became shattered, and totally heartbroken. I wished death could take hold of me , because I don't seem to understand the essence of the life left in me. *Maybe I am actually cursed. Or the Moon Goddess has forsaken me.* I thought. Every morning I woke up hoping that the crushing heaviness sitting inside my chest had somehow eased while I slept, only to discover that it had followed me into another day, settling even deeper into my bones until carrying it felt harder than carrying my own body. I had spent my entire life with someone beside me. First, it had been my father, then it had been Kaelith. Even during the years when Kaelith and I fought, when misunderstandings came between us or whe

