Alpha's Regret: The Forsaken Luna
Sera looked at me.
"She's two," I said.
"Yes," Sera said. "I know."
We watched Lyra discover that the crayon tasted wrong and set it down with the dignified expression of someone revising an assessment.
The drawings kept coming. Seven seals in the correct pattern, then other things — shapes I didn't recognise at first and then did, slowly, as the months accumulated. Places. The stasis chamber, rendered from a perspective that was too high to be a standing child's view, as if seen from above. A forest. A mountain. Once, unmistakably, Caelum — the outline of him, the posture, the particular way he held himself that was specific enough that Marcus looked at it and said: "That's him."