THE LUNA WHO WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST
The horror's jaws opened wide, wider than the serpentine creature's had, wide enough that Luna could see straight down into a darkness that seemed to stretch back for a hundred years of patient waiting, and she understood, in the last, terrible fraction of a second before impact, that she had spent too much of her fire too fast, that this trial, this entire fragile, hard-won coalition, might end here, on cracked and cursed ground, exactly the way the King Alphas had perhaps always secretly intended when they set this impossible test before her.
A blur of storm-gray fur slammed into the horror's exposed flank with bone-jarring force.
Damon.
He'd broken away from his own fight the instant he'd