Sera's Pov
The world changed not long after Lucian whispered those promises to me in that quiet office. One moment, we were basking in the fleeting calm of the future we dared to imagine—a shared office, a future without running or bleeding or burning. And the next, the walls of that vision folded in on themselves. The office shimmered, the air thickened, and once again the fabric of this illusion—or revelation, whatever this place was—twisted around us.
It wasn't just another vision. This… this was deeper. Like the moon goddess was peeling back layers of our minds one at a time—each one bringing us closer to a truth we hadn't even known to question.
First, she showed us pieces of Velka's story. The girl with the bright future, the one who ended up betrayed by her people. I'd heard her pain, her bitterness, her loneliness. I had only known what she'd done to me, to Lucian.
And now we were meeting her.
