Prologue
PROLOGUE:
The Forbidden Eclipse
Long before the city split in half—before the signs ruled birth, love, and death—there was only magic. Whole and wild. Sun and Moon danced together, twin forces in balance, their bearers walking side by side.
Until the Eclipse.
No one remembers what caused it. Only that a Sun-born woman and a Moon-born man defied the law of the skies. They loved. Deeply. Recklessly. And when they tried to merge their magic, the world cracked open. Magic warped. Cities crumbled. And something dark—something old—crawled through the broken veil.
The Council rose from the ashes. They built walls. Drew lines. Banished the story into legend, twisting it into a warning: Sun and Moon must never meet again.
But legends are seeds. And in the shadows of the divided city, a curse takes root—its breath like frost, its heartbeat like fire.
And as it grows, it remembers the names of those who caused it.
Selene. Eiran.
And the blood they left behind.
