Selene’s POV

The sky split above us.

It did not crack like stone or tear like cloth. It simply opened, slowly stretching from one horizon to the other until the darkness above the courtyard disappeared behind a wall of white light.

The light was unlike anything I had ever seen.

It was not silver like my power, gold like the ancient relics, or crimson like the Doom Moon.

It was pure white.

It poured over the courtyard, washing across the broken ground. Wherever it touched, the cracks sealed themselves. The remaining shadow creatures dissolved without a sound, their twisted forms disappearing into the brightness.

Even the crimson glow that had...