Traded to the tyrant
The Eclipse bloodlines walked openly in the lantern light, their silver eyes glowing without shame, their children playing freely among the packs that had once hunted their ancestors.
"Mama, you are doing the quiet face again."
I looked down.
Lyanna stood at my hip, tugging insistently on the sleeve of my dark velvet gown. She was eight years old now, tall for her age, with my silver eyes and Draven's dark, unruly curls. She wore a simple tunic of deep blue wool, practical and comfortable, because she had flatly refused the elaborate ceremonial gown Sena had prepared for her.
"I am not doing the quiet face," I said, smoothing her curls with a smile.