Moonshadow by Krystina Coles

Author:Krystina Coles [Coles, Krystina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-12T06:00:00+00:00

I stood in the doorway as I watched him drag his feet across the floor and sink into his armchair, shivering at the thought of what I’d done.

He was going to kill me—if he could. After all that happened, I wasn’t sure if that was possible—killing a ghost.

“Are you coming?” I hesitated at his words, but closed the door and stepped inside. “Do you like stories, Melissa?”

“Depends on how they end.” I answered, standing beside the couch that sat across from him; and he chuckled to himself.

“You’re a clever girl.” I stared at him as his voice slipped into an accent I couldn’t distinguish. “Sit down. I think this one will interest you.” I did as he asked, refusing to take my eyes off of him; and he looked down at the ground, losing himself in the darkness. “There was…a world where all things that have ever been imagined existed—living, breathing creatures. And in that world, eight kingdoms stood—forged in earth, air, water, fire, ice, wood, aether, and metal. The creatures walked the lands free—with wills and ambitions of their own; but the slaying of the most innocent of beings incurred an everlasting curse on the children of the earth, binding their souls with that of the creatures for all eternity. This continued for thousands of years until the world was stricken by great disaster: earthquakes, fires, blizzards, floods. It was not long before the inhabitants of those eight kingdoms realized that they were caused by people. This was strange, you see,” he glanced up at me, “no one had ever gained power like that before, and no one ever would again. Threatened by their unexplained power, the others sent them away to a place beyond their reach—a place that they could call their own. And after six years, twenty-eight cities arose—each born from the marriage of two of the eight kingdoms; and in the city of earth and water, the first child of this disaster was born to the House of Torrowin, a noble family that hailed from the earth kingdom. But her mother, a former subject of the water kingdom, gave the child a name from the old language—a language, that when spoken by one touched by the Rytaronea, tears the veil between worlds itself.”

“What was her name?” My voice trembled in my throat. And as he lifted his blue eyes from the floor, my heart stopped beating in my chest.

“Elynea Torrowin—the moon’s shadow. Your mother—my daughter—she knew what you would become.”

“But you said it was a story.” I interrupted him, finding myself in a place far beyond my understanding.

I wasn’t a ghost—I wasn’t dead. I was something far more terrifying. And the man that I had lived all my years next door to had been watching me—protecting me.

“In every story, there is truth.” He said simply, and I couldn’t contest it. But then, another question came to mind; and I needed to know the answer.

“Why did they leave me here?” I asked him, desperate and confused.

“The curse of your father’s people is in your blood.

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