"If you accept my power and use it to take revenge, every life you take and every terrible thing you do will still be weighed by the heavens," the Moon Goddess explained. "My blessing can give you strength, but it cannot erase the consequences of your actions."
Rose lowered her gaze. "And what will happen to me?"
"When this life ends, your soul will pay the price." The Moon Goddess did not try to soften her words. "You may have to live through a hundred painful reincarnations. You may be born into lives filled with suffering, lose the people you love again and again, or spend lifetime after lifetime paying for what you choose to do in this one."
A hundred lives.
Rose should have been terrified. Instead, she found herself strangely calm.
What was another hundred painful lives when this one had already taught her what it felt like to lose everything?
"So even after everything they did to me, the heavens will punish me if I fight back?" Rose asked with a bitter laugh.
