THE LUNA WHO WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST
There was only the light, and inside the light, memory that wasn't hers arriving anyway, the way water arrives in a cup that's been waiting empty a long time.
A woman with Luna's same dark hair, standing on a cliff above a moonlit sea, one hand pressed flat against her own stomach. Elena. Young, frightened, alive in a way Luna had never seen her — not the Elena of gentle bedtime stories and lullabies, but a girl barely older than Luna herself, carrying a secret enormous enough to reshape a kingdom.