The Day I Died, They Praised My Sister for Being So Good

Summary

When I was eight, a prank by my little sister, Alice, left silver poison eating away at my heart.

To save me, my dad knelt at the Temple of the Moon Goddess for ninety-nine days.

Only then did he win two moonstone pendants from the Goddess, enough to hold the poison at bay.

After that, Alice became the family pariah.

They stopped speaking to her. They wouldn't even let her smile.

For my sake, my father traveled far and wide searching for a cure for the silver poison.

My mom quit her work as a healer to care for me, because the moonstone pendants needed her at the Moon Temple every day…