von Selah Gaomi
The kingdoms of Migwena and Kamagambo had been at war for so long that even the griots no longer remembered the true cause. Their people bled, their lands burned, and their rulers fanned the flames of hatred with every passing generation. Princess Akinyi of Migwena had been raised to see Prince Jabari of Kamagambo as a ruthless enemy—a warrior-prince whose raids had left her people in mourning, a man she was sworn to despise. His name alone was enough to set her blood aflame with fury.
But fate is a cruel trickster. Forced into an uneasy alliance, Akinyi is shaken by something far more dangerous than the blade she once wished to drive through his heart an undeniable pull, like the whisper of a forgotten song, the pulse of the earth before a great storm. And what neither of them knows is that their fates were entwined long before their birth.
Buried deep within the lost city of Kisumu, carved into the walls of a forgotten temple, lies an ancient prophecy: “When the Sun and the Moon rise as one, the land shall be healed. „When they clash, the world shall be undone.” One royal of the sun. One royal of the moon.
At first, the words seem nothing more than a riddle of the past until the truth begins to unravel before their eyes.
Akinyi, with the fire of the sun in her blood, descended from the line of the Day King, a ruler whose power was said to be gifted by the gods of light and prosperity.
Jabari, the last son of the Moon Queen’s lineage, a bloodline once believed to be extinct,meant to rule with the wisdom of the nightguiding,protecting, and tempering the sun’s fire.
Together, they were meant to bring balance. But someone had turned the Sun against the Moon, rewriting history until their kingdoms knew nothing but war. And when the final revelation is uncovered, it changes everything. Because the war they were raised to fight was never meant to be won. It was meant to keep them apart.
A union between the Sun and Moon would have united the land, ending the cycle of bloodshed. But instead, their ancestors had been betrayed, their fates rewritten to ensure they would forever be enemies. Now, the choice is theirs to continue the war and destroy what little remains of their world, or defy fate itself and reclaim what was stolen. But breaking a cycle forged in blood comes at a cost. And the gods do not take kindly to mortals who dare to rewrite destiny.
© Selah Gaomi 2025-03-12