The Rejected Luna’s Hidden Legacy
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The guards nearly cut Damien down when his hand dove inside his torn jacket … until a pendant fell free instead of a weapon, silver, six-pointed, the exact match to the one sketched in my mother’s journal, swinging on its broken chain.
Fresh blood streaked across its surface, dark and still wet.
“He knows the Lost Princess is alive,” Damien whispered, voice cracking on every word.
Every torch in the summit hall guttered out at once, plunging the room into total darkness. I heard silk rustle, someone’s breath catch hard beside me, the scrape of steel leaving a dozen sheaths in the same instant, my own pulse suddenly loud enough to drown out everything else.
A voice slid out of the black, lo