A Shift in Power
Knowing that no one had faith in me—
It stung.
It made it painfully clear that I was either being bullied, mocked, or simply ignored.
And for what?
Because I was human?
Because I wasn’t marked?
Because I wasn’t one of them?
Selene took a step closer, standing beside me with the grace of a goddess, her presence so commanding that I felt like a child standing next to something untouchable.
Her voice was smooth, yet it carried an underlying edge as she addressed the crowd.
“Perhaps it was my fault,” she mused, her tone laced with false humility. “Helping her learn more about our kind should have been my responsibility. After all, it is the duty of the current Luna to educate and ease the transition for the new Luna.”
Her words were carefully chosen, designed to sou
