THE LUNA WHO WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST
They finally retired as the sky began, faintly, to lighten toward dawn, and Luna slept for a few precious hours curled against Kade's side, her mother's journal held close, dreaming — for the first time in longer than she could remember — not of rejection, or fire, or ancient sleeping things beneath the earth, but simply of a woman with dark hair and silver eyes, laughing beneath a sky full of stars, utterly, fiercely alive.
She woke to Selene's voice calling the camp to readiness, gray morning light filtering through the trees, and rose with a steadiness that surprised even herself, dressing in the simple, practical clothes Marta had packed for her, tucking her mother's journal carefully in