Diana had been reading the books for over a week now and still had not found any information supporting the power of the moon, even with her friend Alexis helping her skim through the books in search of opposition to the sun being all powerful.
"Alexis, are you sure this is all the books we have, I mean, we've skimmed through most of them at this point and still nothing's come up, ive read most of the books in here for years and have read anything about it too called Diana.
"If what you have told me is true then I cannot fault you, but I really don't believe there to be anything else other than the sun... or else surely we could have found something by now?" questioned Alexis, not knowing what to believe anymore.
"I know it's real though, I have felt the power of the moon myself first hand, is there really nothing else here" Diana was feeling more desperate by the minute, why wasn't there any history on this.
"There is the old Maester's room but nobody has ever figured out how to open the door, there is no keyhole to open it and it is made out of a substance we have never experienced anywhere else, nobody has been able to break in, its hundreds of years old!" exclaimed Alexis in a rush, wanting to try and please her friend.
"Take me to it"
Alexis was walking to the back of the library, towards the bookshelves that they had already looked through, "Why are you bringing me back over here?" Diana questioned as they continued to walk towards the back of the library, at the back of the library there was a set of stairs that led up to a path that circled the hill, Diana had made that journey many times before in her childhood, it was another spot she loved to watch the moon.
As they ascended the path Alexis doubled back in the opposite direction, but still climbing, Diana had only ever stuck to the path as a child, too afraid to stray from it. As they rounded the hill they came across a lone door, standing proud as an entrance to the hill.
"How come I've never seen this before" Diana whispered, the door was a large weathered rusted green door with faint engravings of runes, in the centre was a large spherical white crystal, on the right hand side there was a handle but with no key whole and the door being locked nobody had opened it before.
Diana pulled the handle but the door didn't budge, in the past the Solari had had twenty people trying to pull it open at the same time and yet the magic infused door had remained shut!
"It's hopeless" exclaimed Alexis as she turned to leave.
Diana traced her hands over the runes after Alexis had left, not knowing what they meant, the meaning long lost in time. As her hands moved over the grooves left by the magic the gem in the centre began to dimly shine, at that moment Diana knew what she must do to open the door, it had responded to the power of the moon and so she decided, that night, she would find out what was inside.
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"Alexis, where is Diana?" questioned Leona "you were the last person who saw her and the elders would like to question her again on her surrender to the Solari ways".
"I don't know, the last time I saw her was up at the Maester's gate a few hours ago, I don't know why" she replied, it was evening now and the moon was just coming into view.
"Take me there" demanded Leona, they walked in silence, tension as thick as fog, as they were reaching the top of the stairs Alexis could hear the faint moan of metal grinding on metal but Leona did not seem to notice, the moon was out shining brightly down on the hill.
They rounded the hill to where the door was and Diana was not to be seen and so Leona stormed off, annoyed at the wasted time back towards the town, yet Alexis stayed, having a gut feeling that Diana may have found out how to open the door and as she knocked, seemingly pointlessly, she felt the warmth of the metal.
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Diana heard the knocking at the door, knew it was Alexis, but she decided it was important for as few people as possible to know that she was looking for evidence of the moons power.
Diana gasped when she entered, the sight before her took her breath away, there were countless tomes around here, most with the sigil of the moon inscribed on the outside alongside the sigil of the sun, the crystal from the door was glowing in the night, showering the room in moonlight.
Hours of reading followed and while the old tomes did not state that the moon was equal to the sun in power, they did say that the moon had power which people had been able to use, others said they were equals, once existing side by side, both Lunari and Solari. There was nothing to suggest why the Lunari had disappeared from what she had read so far.
Diana had managed to stay in there for days, water trickled down from the rocks above into a bowl like pool in the shape of the moon where she drank.
Just as she had read every book in the room midnight fell, whereas every other night it had been a crescent shaped moon to light the room, tonight it was a full moon, and with it came a beam that pointed to the end of the room where there was a chest inscribed with more runes.
Could this contain what im looking for Diana thought to herself as she walked over to the box, she tried to grapple the lid off and yet it would not budge, "could it be" Diana whispered as she put her hand atop the chest, as she did so she stood in the beam of light from the crystal allowing the moon to empower her, she felt the power flowing through her veins, coursing through her muscles, entrapping he heart in the moons power.
*Click*
The chest opened, and with it came the stench of the age, inside lay a plain brown, worn leather tome, small in size with no sigils of either side. Inside were notes, written by the Maester's that had worked here, knowledge collected over years of experience, the first page was written 'The sun does not reveal the truth. Its light only burns and blinds, only in the true light is right separated from wrong'. Throughout the rest of the page were names of places she recognized and talking's of an entrance to the sacred temple.
Diana couldn't read clearly as she was far away from the crystal source and so walked towards the light, when she went to read the message again, it had changed…
'If you are faithful to the moon, go to the valley at the north-west side of mount Targon, there the moon faced tree will show you the truth'
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