Rejected Luna: Royal blood
Emily's POV
The day moved fast once dawn broke.
Liam had the eastern rotation doubled before the second hour. Leon was running Shadowcrest's remaining warriors through the outer perimeter in pairs, quiet and methodical, the way Leon did everything, without ceremony and without wasted motion. The archivist was in the war room with Elder Marc; the two of them bent over maps, the old hand-drawn kind with borders slightly wrong in the way of maps made before the last alliance shifts. Lira was in the upper corridor. I could feel her through the current, her power still banked but steadier than three days ago. Less fought against. More carrying than that, the way you carry something when you have