Before to the Moon Claims Her [Part-2]
Her dress accentuates her hourglass figure. A white velvet of kings, with off-the-shoulder sleeves and corseted waist, embroidered with silver moons and sapphire dust flecks. It hugged her body with eternal elegance. Tonight, however, she donned it not to blind…
…but to survive.
Standing in front of the mirror, her fingers trailed the rim of the glass. They shook.
Under the mirror, on the marble top, lay a purple velvet box of jewelry—formed like a lotus, adorned with twilight amethysts and rimmed with slender golden vines. She took it very slowly—nearly religiously—and opened it.
Her hands caressed the soft velvet lining as she opened the box. Within reclined a stunning necklace.
