THE TRUE LUNA IS A FATSO!
I went back to my summary notes and kept writing, and outside the window the torch-lit courtyard below had begun to empty as the assembly concluded, and in the patterns of people moving back toward the packhouse I could see what Darian's secondary chamber couldn't see from its angle, the way packmates who had spent the last eleven days uncertain and frightened and suspicious were now moving differently.
In pairs. In small clusters. Stopping to speak to each other, briefly, hands touching shoulders, heads leaning together.
The specific movement of people who had been reminded that they were not alone in something frightening.
I finished the summary and set my pen down and sat for a moment lon