Annalise’s POV
I knew we were having the closing ceremony at the lake, and the following banquet along her shores, but I wasn’t expecting to be the focus of the event. Archer kept that little piece of information to himself until, hand in hand, he walked me to the moon temple.
“Priestess? Are you sure?” I questioned him as he led me into the marble chamber covered in beautiful mosaics detailing the life and death of the moon maidens–the very first priestesses of the moon. “I’m not qualified to be a priestess. I haven’t had any training.”
“You don’t need to be fully trained to take this role,” Archer grinned at me in that sweet way that melts my heart every time. “You have already proven you can wield the ring, that’s something that some of our priestesses are never able to do, even af
