Everything around me stopped moving. The air, the people, even the sounds. It all froze. Rohan’s words kept echoing in my head, but they didn’t make sense. Selene is no more.
I stared at him, waiting for him to take it back, to say he was mistaken. But he didn’t. His face was covered in dust and blood, his eyes lowered to the ground, and in his trembling hand was her bracelet, the one she never removed.
I reached for it slowly. The silver was cold, sticky with dried blood. My throat tightened, but I couldn’t speak. The courtyard seemed to tilt, the sunlight too bright and dull at the same time.
“She can’t be gone,” I whispered, my voice almost foreign to my ears. “She’s… Selene.”
No one answered. The warriors bowed their heads. I saw their lips moving, murmuring prayers to the Moon God
