Rain of Shadows and Endings (The Legacy)

by Melissa K. Roehrich

Among those to emerge were six Firsts: Falein, goddess of wisdom and cleverness; Celeste, goddess of the sky and moon; Anala, goddess of day, fire, and the sun; Serafina, goddess of the stars and dreams; Achaz, god of beginnings; and Arius, god of endings.

Be what they want you to be now, so you can be who you were meant to be later.

“Know that sometimes we must break to be forged into who we were meant to be,”

“You will break, Tessalyn. Make sure you get back up and take what is yours.”

strength grows in the moments you think you can’t go on, but you do anyway. Strength is fighting back. Strength is doing whatever it takes to claim what is yours, even if others try to convince you it is not yours to take.”

If you

are weak enough to fall, you are strong enough to rise back up. Weakness and strength come from the same place, and both are necessary.

“First you need to figure out what you’re fighting for. First you need to care about something,” Luka said.

“Then what? Step on whoever gets in my way?”

“No one can steal your thunder if you are the storm,” he replied, stretching a hand toward her. “Be the fucking storm, Tessa.”