Chapter 81 - Chapter 81 – The First Chosen

The darkness inside the forest turned into something else after the word "choice" fell into Elara's mind. The shadows that had carried only danger a short while ago now seemed like waiting faces. There was a possibility between every tree. Every silence could have been hiding someone's breath. Elara knew this not only because she thought it, but because she truly felt it. After that single word, the Moon Spirit had fallen silent again, but this silence was not absence. It was waiting. As if it had told her what the third step was, but wanted the moment that would open it to come from Elara.