The Moon's Forgotten Bride
"For that. For all of it."
The full moon rose three nights later, the same deadline the Vigil's letter had once demanded she surrender to, now simply another night in a life she'd finally learned to claim as fully hers. Kaelen found her on the barn roof, their place, watching the moon climb bright and whole above the training grounds that had witnessed nearly everything that mattered about the past month — her trial, her mark, the confrontation that had nearly cost them everything and instead delivered, improbably, a fragile and hard-won peace.