THE LUNA WHO WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST
Luna snarled, and the fire responded to her fury exactly as it had at the original trial, gathering and sharpening into something that felt, unmistakably, like a weapon wielded entirely by her own will.
But even as the silver light gathered fierce and bright around her clenched fists, Luna understood, with grim, settling clarity, that without Wren's steady golden sight to weave alongside her own power, without the careful unity of a properly prepared coalition, this single, desperate burst would not be enough to fully defeat something this vast, this ancient, this thoroughly enraged by its careless, violent release.
She had, perhaps, one more chance to make it count.
And behind her, she coul