What was even more unsettling was that the bond with her mate had been severed...
An Jin stood alone in an unfathomably deep forest.
An unknown mist shrouded the area, and everything around her was deathly quiet. Even the calls of birds and the chirping of insects had vanished without a trace, as if she were the only person left in the entire world.
Cold, deathly pale moonlight pierced through layers of disorienting mist, falling upon her body and into her eyes. An Jin looked up and saw that the moon had emerged from behind the dark clouds at some point.
The moons tonight were exceptionally round and large. Two huge full moons took up nearly a quarter of the ink-blue firmament, like a pair of perfectly round eyeballs that had suddenly opened in the night, filling one with an inexplicable sense of eeriness and dread.
The deathly pale moonlight illuminated the path ahead.
