The Luna's Deception
he was saying, tracing a bright point on the hide, "and if you follow this line here, and this one, you get the shape the old maps call the Wolf's Crown.
Sailors used it for centuries before any of us were born."
"Did it guide you," one of the younger pups asked, tugging at his sleeve. "When you were in the bad place."
The question landed heavier than the child likely intended, and I watched him go still for a moment, charcoal paused mid stroke.
"It guided someone who saved me," he said quietly. "Sovereign Luna followed constellations like these when she came looking for us.
I did not see the sky myself for a long time, but I have made up for that since."