Chapter 54

Alice

"Mother?" I asked in surprise. "What do you mean, mother?"

The matriarch's eyes widened as if she couldn't take it in, and then something completely unhinged me. She prostrated herself on the ground and knelt before me. That was the straw that broke the damn camel's back.

"Will someone kindly explain to me what is going on here?" I asked this time with annoyance.

Suddenly, a woman emerged from the water, and I was spellbound.

She was of unheard-of beauty, the likes of which were not to be found in the world, and when she approached me, she immediately dried up and began to glow as if she were a star. Then the realization of what was happening came to me in a hurry, and I had to prostrate myself on the ground.

It was the Luna Goddess herself.

"I thought that making you reborn along with an innocent but stubborn woman was what you finally needed to come back to me," the Goddess said, and I frowned. "Lift your face, girl; I am conversing with my daughter Selene."

I did so fearfully