Kira's POV
"I'll take first watch," Ryker volunteered.
"I'll join you," I said, not wanting to be left alone with the oceans of thoughts—or the whispers.
The others settled down to rest, though I knew that it would be hard for any of them to be able to find sleep easy in this eerie place. Ryker and I sat back to back, our eyes scanning the darkness beyond our circle of light.
"Tell me about the crescent moonstone," he said, after a long silence. "What exactly are we looking for?"
"According to the moon goddess, it's a pale blue stone shaped like a crescent moon just as it is on my arm," I replied. Showing him the diagram on my arm "It absorbs and amplifies lunar energy, which is supposedly harmful to the entity."
"And it's somewhere in Raventhorne Forest?"
"Why are you asking me all this questions as if you weren't there when the elder told us about its location"
