THE LUNA WHO WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST
Luna's chest ached with a grief so total it stole what little breath she had left in this strange nowhere place — grief for a father she had never once seen laugh, never once heard say her name, and yet somehow, impossibly, recognized on sight the way you recognize your own reflection.
A different night. Elena, older now, exhausted, blood on her hands that wasn't her own, a baby wrapped tight against her chest — Luna, small and new and utterly unaware of the war already being fought around her tiny, sleeping body. And beside Elena, a woman with steady hands and steadier eyes, taking the baby gently from her arms.