The Luna’s Revenge
Theron looked like he wanted to argue but he just nodded and pulled her closer, and they sat together in the growing darkness and mourned what they’d lost.
Sleep didn’t come that night, or if it did it was so brief and shallow that Nyx didn’t remember it. She lay in the dark listening to Theron breathe beside her and feeling the emptiness in her body where life had been growing for six months, and she thought about the daughter who would never breathe, who would never cry, who would never know anything except the few hours she’d spent wrapped in cloth being held by parents who loved her. When morning finally came, grey and cold through the windows, Nyx forced herself to get up and dress in b