Betrayed by My Triad: The Luna’s Return
That was new, she noted, and let herself count it: not resolution, just a fact that hadn’t been true two arcs ago and was true now.
Nothing here had closed. The alliance had held but not been declared safe. The legacy was larger and still unexplained. Roan’s cost stayed live and unclaimed. Vera’s shape had narrowed and stayed unconfirmed. Hollis’s name kept arriving from directions nobody could account for. Ashworth’s hostility had changed its nature entirely and hadn’t finished changing.
But she could hold all of it now without her hands shaking. That, at least, was hers.
“Tomorrow,” Ivy said, mostly to the fire, “I want to talk about that place your contact mentioned. The one connected to