Chapter 118: Grand schemes...
Selene POV
The evenings came quickly.
My heart was skipping continuously. At the drop of a heart, a knock on the door, even footsteps. The pack house was thinning with people, the full dark moon was usually spent with family so by evening a lot of the servants had left. The ones hovering around either lived in the pack house or didn’t have families.
The girls’ nannies already left in the last two hours ago and I was left to tend to the girls. As stared at them as they continued to chatter amongst themselves on what color was best for their coloring book. They were tracing out a house and have been absorbed in it. I was worried, for the first time since the dark moon, I was worried that something more was going to happen. Occasionally, a picture of the dream from last night will flit into my memory. Something was wrong but I couldn’t place my finger on it.
I stared at the anklets I made with evening primrose and three pinches of saffron. I know the girls would not be harmed since they would be inside the house and since they were birthed on the day of the blood moon, they had a lot of immunity to things like this but I didn’t want to make choices.
"Girls!" I called out to them warmly dangling the anklets in the air as I beckoned on them to come "You need to tie this around your ankles for tonight until tomorrow. I know your nannies have already told you about the dark moon that will appear tonight. You’re both immune to his powers but I want to take extra precautions,".
"But mommy, you once told us that no one can know the day of the dark moon. How come everyone is sure that it’ll be today? The sky looks pretty normal to me," Maeve shrugged.
"I understand darling but that is for the half-dark moon. The day I and Daddy were born. No one can tell when it comes and it’s the day that the moon sheds its skin. The full dark moon is easier to spot and comes around now and again. So, there’s a difference and the moon priest already sent out a warning about today a month ago,".
"If the moon doesn’t shed its skin today, then what does it do?" Vina asked.