Elara woke with a silent scream lodged in her throat.
The dream no, the vision still clung to her like oil on water. Varak’s face, twisted with dark triumph, burned behind her eyelids. The corrupted fragment of the Lunar Core had pulsed in his chest like a black sun, whispering promises of reunion and revenge. “Your soul called to me, Silent One. Come complete it… or I will come for you.”
She bolted upright in bed, chest heaving, silver light flaring erratically around her hands and spilling across the sheets like spilled starlight. The heart of the silent moon stirred violently inside her, no longer quiet but agitated, pushing against the walls of her soul as if trying to answer the fragment’s call.
Kai was awake in the same instant.
His powerful arms wrapped around her before she c
