LUNE
she murmured, her voice barely above a whisper as she pushed her food around her plate, trying to process the layers of this new reality.
Arlo leaned back in his chair, watching Lune quietly as she processed his words. He couldn’t help but find the situation amusing, a sly smile tugging at the corner of his lips. Thirty? What a ridiculous lie. He’d said it so casually, as though it were the truth, but in reality, he was far older than that. Five hundred years, give or take a decade or two—it had been so long that even he had lost count of the exact number.
He chuckled softly to himself, swirling the wine in his glass. If I were thirty, then I would have been a child of seven when Lune was bo