I stood in front of the portal, staring at the still water. I must have been doing this for the past five minutes or so, trying to build up the courage to actually go inside, to actually jump realms. My stomach was twisting and turning, knotting. I had no idea why I was feeling this way, especially since I had done this countless times before, since I had been doing this for decades on end, since that very first time.
“Are you planning to go anywhere, or are you just going to stand there?”
I nearly jumped right into the water when I heard the voice speak from beside me, my head snapping to the side faster that I ever could have imagined that it would. A sense of relief flooded through me when I saw that it was the moon goddess who stood beside me, staring at the water in the same
