Astrid’s POVThe moon felt so close, more than it has ever been. The moon had never felt so close.It hung low in the sky, swollen and fractured, with veils of cloud around it. The storm had gone away from the city, but it had not gone from us. It was still in us, the kind that lived in the chest, heavy and unresolved.I stood on the cold stone with bare feet, my arms wrapped around myself, feeling the world hum uneasily beneath my skin. The wards along the outer walls pulsed erratically, reacting to distant pack movements, to treaties unraveling, to old borders being crossed for the first time in generations.The world was breaking into motion again.And love at this point felt like it was one of the most dangerous things to go into in a moment like this. Just behind me, I heard footsteps, and I knew whose footsteps they were—Sebastian’s footsteps.I didn’t turn. I didn’t need to turn, at least not yet.Because if I turn, I am not sure I will be able to hold myself from the effect
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