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CHAPTER 40
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TOO FAT TO BE LUNA CHAPTER 44
VIVIAN’S POVWe arrived in the ritual room.My ritual room — not the one at Crescent Moon, which had been compromised months ago, but the original. The one I’d built when Celeste was eight years old and I’d first understood what she was and what she would need. Stone walls, twenty-three candles, the accumulated magical resonance of fifteen years of serious practice soaked into every surface.I laid her on the floor.She was still conscious. Barely — the dark magic consuming inward had done significant damage, the internal burns of a caster whose own working had reversed through them. I’d taken as much of it into myself as I could in the courtyard. Enough to stop the worst of it.Not enough.I could feel what remained in her. The dark magic settling into the damage it had done, the way such things settled — not actively consuming anymore but present in the wounds it had made, ensuring they wouldn’t heal through standard means.My hands moved over her automatically, the diagnostic pass
TOO FAT TO BE LUNA CHAPTER 43
KAEL’S POVThe bond muffled.That was the first thing — not severed, not silent, but wrong in the specific way of interference, the connection to Aria suddenly running through something that dampened it. I felt her on the other side of it, present but compressed, the signal arriving like sound through stone.I gave it thirty seconds.The thirty seconds a tactically sound Alpha gave a situation before overriding the plan because the plan had encountered reality.At twenty-eight seconds, I felt the pain.At twenty-nine, I was already shifting.At thirty, I stopped counting.Marcus was beside me before I’d covered twenty feet.“The barrier,” he said, keeping pace. “We don’t know the structural—”“I know the structural,” I said.“Kael—”“Marcus.” I looked at him once, running. “She’s in pain.”He stopped arguing.The barrier was visible from a quarter mile — faint violet light tracing a perimeter around the border crossin
TOO FAT TO BE LUNA CHAPTER 42
DEREK’S POVI felt it at dawn.Not heard — felt, through the bond that everyone said was dead and wasn’t, that had been the most reliable thing in the dungeon because it didn’t lie and it didn’t manage itself and it didn’t care about what I deserved to feel.Pain.Not Aria’s physical pain specifically — the bond didn’t transmit sensation with that kind of precision. But distress, real and immediate and specific, the quality of it different from the ordinary difficulty of the past weeks. This was active. This was now.She was here.I was on my feet before the thought finished, which told me something about what the bond had been doing to my body while my mind was occupied with guilt and ceiling stones — keeping something in reserve, apparently, holding back enough that when it mattered there was something to stand on.I stood.Took inventory.Three weeks of limited food and two weeks of none. The particular weakness that lived in muscles that
TOO FAT TO BE LUNA CHAPTER 41
CELESTE’S POVI had been waiting for this conversation for six years.Not the barrier, not the ritual — the conversation. The moment when I could stop performing the warmth and the sweetness and the carefully calibrated Celeste that I’d constructed at twelve years old under Vivian’s instruction, and say the true version.Aria was looking at me with gold eyes and fully awakened Royal power and the particular expression of someone who had survived enough that additional revelations had stopped being able to break them.I found that annoying.She was supposed to be afraid.“You want to know,” I said. “That’s the thing about you — you always want to understand. Even now. Even here.”“Tell me,” she said.Not begging. Not performing fear. Just — asking, with the steady directness that had apparently survived everything I’d done to her, everything Mother had done, six months of kitchens and cracked hands and deliberate diminishment.I looked at her gold eyes and felt the specific fury of som
TOO FAT TO BE LUNA CHAPTER 40
ARIA’S POVI read it three times.Not because the words were unclear. Because I was giving myself the three readings to feel everything I needed to feel before I had to think clearly, and the feelings were — complicated in a way that didn’t resolve on the second reading or the third.Derek.The man who had put me on the floor of the ceremony hall and handed the crowd the word to finish the job.Also the man who had locked himself in his father’s office at one in the morning and followed a thread of uncomfortable questions all the way to their conclusion. Who had found journals and faced what they said. Who had sent a desperate, genuine, broken plea through a bond he had no reason to believe I could still feel.Save our pack from what I allowed to happen.He’d been in that dungeon because he’d tried.Not because I’d asked him to. Not for me specifically. But he’d tried, and Celeste had put him there for it, and whatever Derek Stone was or wasn’t, whatever debt existed or didn’t between
TOO FAT TO BE LUNA CHAPTER 39
ARIA’S POVThe battle’s end didn’t arrive like an ending.It arrived like exhaustion — gradual, spreading, the adrenaline thinning out and what was underneath it surfacing slowly. The territory was quiet now, the artificial dark fully dissolved, real morning light finding every corner of the grounds and showing us clearly what the battle had cost.I walked through it.Not with purpose, at first. Just walking, the newly uncursed body still learning what it felt like to move without twenty-three years of suppression, the gold-white power settling into its resting state, and my eyes finding things I didn’t want to find and looking anyway because looking away was something I was done with.Seven warriors down.Not wounded. Down.I knew their names. I’d learned them in three weeks of training, of pack meals, of the particular intimacy of living inside a group of people who were preparing for something together. Gareth, who’d been on the border patrol the night I’d arrived. Finn, who’d made
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