The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (The Three Realms #2)

Chapter 9 Àn’yīng

àn’yīng

Kingdom of Night

We fly. Onward, rising through the skies, the air around us growing colder, my breath pluming in front of me. We fly, bursting through the layer of clouds to a clear night. Stars reel overhead, and the moon casts all in monochrome.

The moon begins to warp. The full circle shrinks; an invisible darkness eats away at its light, spreading to the skies all around.

The shadow grows, black enough to consume the stars, and all that’s left is a hollow crescent, pale as bone, gleaming in the depths—a scythe-like moon I recognize, have seen in all my visions of the demon queen watching me from my nightmares.

That is how I know when we enter the Kingdom of Night.