CROWNED BY BLOOD
Then his words, precise and plain and somehow more cruel for their honesty, more devastating for their lack of ornament:
Luna, if you are reading this, then the world has been unkind to us in ways I feared but hoped never to see. If grief has made you hard as mountain stone, then know this: I loved you when you were a dawn breaking over the meadows, and I loved you when you were a storm that could shake the very foundations of the earth. Love does not excuse everything, but it recognizes truth even when truth cuts deep. If you remember who you are under the crown and the curse, and if you protect what matters most, then forgive yourself the rest. If you do not, if you have lost yourself comp