Seraphina woke with a start, her chest rising and falling rapidly as she gasped for air. Her heart raced, but it wasn't from fear. It was something else- an overwhelming sense of strength that pulsed through her veins, pushing aside the weight of the heartbreak that had consumed her for days. The pain she had felt- the betrayal from Orion, the humiliation of being rejected- was still there, but now it was muted, like a distant echo rather than a crushing force.
She blinked against the soft light filtering through the curtains and stared up at the ceiling, her mind still lingering on the strange dream from the night before. The forest, the fog, the woman who looked just like her... and the Moon Goddess. Seraphina sat up slowly, her fingers brushing over the soft sheets as she recalled
