{"Being a shifter isn't a curse. It's a reminder that power lies in embracing the beast within, not hiding from it."}
I did not answer right away, and my instinct was to say yes. "No," I admitted. "Not all the way. But I would still walk back into it with you. Even if the mountain swallowed us whole." Her breath hitched not with fear, but with the weight of knowing I meant it and she turned in my arms then, facing me, her hands pressed against my chest.
"I'm scared, Rou," she said softly." Last time you left for Bloodstone Mountain, and I barely survived being away from you, and this time we cannot be separated."
I cupped her face. "Then we break together."
She closed her eyes, leaned her forehead into mine. "We have only just found this. Found us. I do not want to lose it to something ancient and wild about a greedy moon goddess's sister".
