THE TRUE LUNA IS A FATSO!
Where are you.
I looked at Bella. At the mark on her wrist, black and advancing, the peace in her face doing nothing to stop the physical reality of what was happening to her body while her spirit was busy with something ancient and irreplaceable.
"We have to go," I said. "Right now."
She looked at the heart stone.
"Take it," I said. "Bring it with you."
She picked it up carefully, both hands, and the moment it left the shelf the light in the tunnel intensified briefly, blazingly, the Moon Script on every wall blazing simultaneously, and then settled into something that followed Bella rather than emanating from the shelf. Attached to her now. Hers.