Chapter 160

EMBER’s POV

“They want you to wrestle a bear?” Jean asked looking just as shocked as I had felt when I heard the news and I nodded soberly,

“They say it’s the only way for me to prove myself as being strong and worthy,” I said and took my seat on Jean’s couch.

I had come to tell him what had befallen me, but I also had a request to make of him and truly hoped he would not turn me down

He thought for a moment before he slowly began to nod,

“I’ve read such a thing growing up. But it was never the elders who set it up. It was the moon goddess herself who required crazy things from the man she chose.”

“Yeah, that’s exactly what this is about.”

“But they aren’t the moon goddess, so why are they the ones to choose?”

“It seems as though the moon goddess has left it in the charge of the elders. Or perhaps the elders just wish to continue something that they feel is necessary.”