The Luna's Deception
"It does not care how much good you build elsewhere. It still asks to be witnessed eventually."
I nodded, throat too tight for words for a long moment, staring at the ash beneath my knees, trying to reconcile the small girl who had hidden behind that broken wall with the woman kneeling here now, Sovereign Luna, wife, ruler of a united kingdom, still somehow just as frightened in this exact spot as she had been that night.
"I used to think if I ever came back here, I would fall apart entirely," I said. "That the grief would be too big to survive twice."