Night's Children: Acteus Reus

Wrongful Act.

Summary: Book four. Imy's behavior lately has been less than impressive, and her fellow DOTM think that she's not taking the job seriously. Things become further complicated when a new girl appears, one that's bringing out the darker side of Imy.

AN: I have no self-restraint. At all.

Prologue: Ananke

It is easily argued that the supreme factor that rules over all mankind are the inevitable choices brought upon by necessity. It is the driving force, and the one aspect of life that mankind is powerless to fight against. Even Fate, its child, rightfully fears it. This factor is called Ananke, or Destiny, and she rules over all paths and choices. She is the mother to the three sisters who sit and spin the threads of lives, the eldest snipping the strings when it is time for souls to depart for the next world.

Ananke is a fair goddess, one without bias or judgment. It is her solemn duty to restore and maintain the balance and trade of everyone, so that order in the universe prevails over chaos. A death, a life. A tear, a laugh. A sin, a punishment. This is her power.

Long ago, there was a betrayal made by a Follower. Betrayals are the greatest of transgressions, one that gets a soul sent immediately to the depths of Tartarus, and betrayals of kin are the worst of that kind. By the time this betrayal was noticed by the goddess of Destiny, Ananke, it had long since avoided its rightful consequence of punishment. The Atrox, a being that hated Ananke and her children almost as much as the Moon and her Daughters, intervened with this instance, protecting its servant and hindering the great goddess.

Fifteen years ago, a child was born. A goddess of the moon, and the daughter of traitors. Ananke decided that this girl would be the one to bring the fleeing Follower of the Atrox back to its preordained path, and to restore harmony for both the sins of the Follower, and the sins of the daughter's parents.

It was a heavy burden, but should the daughter falter, it was prophesized that Fate would be altered and a great darkness would overcome the world.