The Luna Queen's Rebirth
We walked down through the sleeping village together, my father leaning on my arm, past the shuttered windows and the doused remains of the pyre and the lanterns guttering in their strings, the snow settling over all of it, soft and quiet and pure white.
The morgue was colder than the night outside. My father pulled the chain on the single bulb, led me to the shelf along the far wall, and drew the sheet back without a word.
Vivian looked smaller than I remembered. Younger, too, with the sneer gone and her dark hair combed back from her face by some kind soul who hadn’t known her at all. I waited to feel the old anger. It didn’t come. All those years, two lifetimes of scheming and jealousy an
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