Daughter of the Veil: Two Moons Prophecy
Excerpt – Daughter of the Veil
The desert had nearly swallowed me when I found him.
My throat burned, my lips split from thirst, and my feet dragged across the endless sand. The moons hung low, silver and watchful, their whispers crowding the edges of my mind. Daughter of the Veil… run, run…
I almost didn’t see him at first — just a shadow leaning against the ruins of an old stone arch, half-buried in the sand. He looked carved from the desert itself, all sharp lines and silence. When his eyes lifted to mine, I felt the air shift.
Not the gentle hush of wind, but something deeper — as if the stars themselves had leaned closer to listen.
“You shouldn’t be here,” he said, voice low, rough, carrying the weight of centuries.
“I don’t have anywhere else to be,” I whispered back, though my heart hammered as if it wanted to escape my chest.
There was a strange pull between us, something I couldn’t name — fear, yes, but threaded with something else. Recognition. As though I had walked into a dream I’d had a thousand times before.
He stepped forward, and the moonlight caught his face. For a moment, I saw sorrow there, deep and endless, like a wound that had never healed. And I knew — without knowing how — that he carried a burden tied to me, to my birth, to the voices that haunted my nights.
The moons whispered again. Their voices tangled with my racing thoughts.
This is the one who betrayed us. This is the one who must protect you. This is the one who will end you.
And still, I could not look away.