5. Maeve’s Warning

Verse 1 She stood where the fire burned low With storm-white hair and eyes that know A thousand winters in her face And all the weight of this cursed place She said, child, your blood has stirred And now the old world has been heard The thing you carry is a key To chains, to doom, to victory Chorus Maeve’s warning in the midnight air Do not trust the power there Every gift the darkness gives Takes a piece of what still lives Maeve’s warning, grave and thin Do not let the night within Use the blade, but know the cost Or all that breathes will still be lost Verse 2 She showed me books of brittle skin Of noble halls and hidden sin Of bargains struck beneath no moon For power now returned too soon She told me of the temple’s gate Of ancient hands that governed fate Of one last path beneath the wood Where curse and blood first understood Chorus Maeve’s warning in the midnight air Do not trust the power there Every gift the darkness gives Takes a piece of what still lives Maeve’s warning, grave and thin Do not let the night within Use the blade, but know the cost Or all that breathes will still be lost Bridge She did not speak to make me fear But so the truth would sound more clear Not every darkness must be slain Some grief must first be named as pain Final Verse Then in the hush before the dawn She placed her weathered hand on mine And said, the thing you fight is old But so is courage in your line Final Chorus Maeve’s warning, still I hear When the shadows gather near Power bends and power scars Even when it calls you star Maeve’s warning, stern and wise Walk the dark with open eyes Break the pact, but guard your soul Or night will claim the final toll