Rejected Luna: Royal blood
We went through the low gate and along the path that had been walked so many times over the years that the stone was worn smooth in the centre, and we stopped before the two newest markers.
Perrin was first. He had died in the hour before the breach was sealed, not from the assault itself, Mia had told me that, with the particular precision of a healer who understood that the difference mattered. His wounds from the First Power, the ones from the hunters' battle weeks ago, had never fully settled. The assault had drawn too heavily on what he had left. He had been twenty-two years old and had joined Ironclaw at eighteen, after his family pack lost its territory in a bad winter, and he had bee