MARKED BY MOON
Ashwood forces, having decisively contributed to Ephraim's defeat, begin systematically securing the area, gathering prisoners, treating wounded regardless of which side they originally fought for.
Luna finally allows herself to feel the full weight of exhaustion, pain, and grief threatening to overwhelm her composed exterior. She's killed a man today—her own uncle, however monstrous his choices had become. She's watched someone nearly die protecting the man she loves. She's fought harder than she's ever fought, sacrificed more than she thought herself capable of sacrificing, and somehow, impossibly, survived to witness this battle's terrible, necessary conclusion.
"It's over," she says, tho