The Alpha's Rejected Luna and Her Secret Heir
Seventy-two women coming down out of the dark singing a lullaby in six notes and then in more, getting louder for four hours, and Ilva standing on the last ring with her head back and her eyes shut, and Bryn, who wanted to leave, sitting down on the top step and putting her face in her hands.
Sela comes onto the floor first with her braid come down and her hands cut from the wall and eleven days of the worst work in the world on her, and she looks at me and at the woman in my arms and at the dust, and the spear and the old lady in the ice, and she says the only thing there is to say.
"All of them," she says. "All seventy-two. I have counted three times."