A Luna for the Lycan King
The great toy introduction had collapsed sometime earlier into a sprawling game with rules known only to its architect, and its architect lay defeated in the middle of the rug, flat on her back in her wrinkled blue dress, daisy crown askew over one ear, Smoke clutched to her chest, deeply asleep mid-conquest.
Thorin sat beside her on the floor, cross-legged, perfectly upright.
He wasn’t playing. He wasn’t fidgeting, or exploring the room, or doing any of the thousand things a ten-year-old does when the entertainment falls asleep. He sat with his hands resting on his knees and his eyes moving in a slow patient circuit, the door, the window, the sleeping girl, the door again, a sentry posted a