Bound moon
"You think you’re here to exploit a weakness. But look closer, Kael."
I didn't reach for my blade. I reached for the air itself.
I called upon the Moonveil energy—the deep, cold, crystalline power that had been dormant for three millennia. I pulled it from the earth, from the river, and from the very marrow of my bones.
The bridge exploded with white, silver light.
It wasn't an explosion of heat; it was an explosion of presence. The air grew heavy, thick with the scent of ozone and ancient sovereignty. The silver light wreathed my body, lifting my hair, turning my eyes into twin pools of liquid mercury.