The Luna's Crown
It looks at me for a long moment with eyes that have seen civilizations rise and fall.
Then it screams — not pain, something closer to rage at being denied a meal it has been anticipating for centuries — and the shadow-shape collapses inward, folding into nothing, the pressure in the room releasing all at once like a held breath finally let go.
Darius's body, still lying where it fell two nights ago, gasps.
His eyes open.
For a moment there is nothing behind them. Then, slowly, terribly, something returns — not the Devourer, not the man I married, something broken and hollow that recognizes me with a flicker of fear before the recognition collapses into confusion.
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