Chapter 538: Favored of the Moon
The Shaman Elect growled and bared her teeth. “What is this…?! You are the son of Blood Fang and Ebon! You are our War Master, you are to lead the Sylvan people in times of strife. Tell me you have not chosen to side with our enemies! Tell me you did not bring us to this city for the sake of these traitorous lords and their people!?” Lumi pointed an accusing finger at Gale.
Stryg swallowed hard, “I—”
“He did not bring anyone here. I did,” spoke a voice as cold as the winter night.
A sense of dread and relief filled Stryg’s chest as he slowly turned around and saw Lunae. The goddess of the moon appeared not as a massive wolf that would have ripped through the ceiling, nor did she appear as a towering titan. The one who stood in front of the tavern full of chieftains was a young teenager. Her cheeks were round with the baby fat of youth, but her skin held the same sheen and her long snow-white hair draped across her back and shimmied above her ankles.
She hardly seemed a threat but as her pale white-blue eyes glanced across the room, every chieftain shrunk back in fear and reverence. Lumi and Lykos fell to their knees and bowed and the rest of the goblins quickly followed. Melfyn, Gale, and her two fellow vampires glanced at Stryg questioningly, but his gaze was stuck on the silver stranger. Unsure what to do, the four stayed standing alongside him.
“Lumi, my Eyes within the Tribunal, tell me—” the goddess called out in a voice that sent shivers down the goblin. “Whom do you serve?”
The Shaman Elect licked her lips nervously, but she did not dare to look up. “I have sworn my life to you, Mother Moon. I live to serve you.”
“And who was it that commanded you to leave Evenfall and march across the Realm to this place?”
“Y-You did, Divine Mother.”