A Luna for the Lycan King
It climbed her flanks in clear sheets, over the battered wings, up the great neck, closing around the last of the First like ice closing over deep water, smooth and perfect and impossibly gentle, until the whole sleeping length of her lay held inside it, preserved down to the frost on her scales, and the moonlight came through it and lit her from every side.
I had seen crystal like it once before. Everyone in Thorin’s family has. It held a queen for years under a mountain very much like this one, and the boy raising it now had grown up walking past it, learning to love somebody through it. The gods made that crystal a punishment. Thorin and Lyra made this one a bed.
“Like Mama’s,” he said, t
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