A Luna for the Lycan King
Her growl, when Darren suggested perhaps a small rest, dimmed the candles along the near wall by half, which earned an impressed murmur from the fairy delegation, and then her face crumpled toward the overtired cliff edge every parent learns to spot at a hundred paces.
Darren swept her up before she went over it. She fought sleep for exactly two seconds, then surrendered into his shoulder, cloak, stocking feet, Smoke and all.
“I’ll take her up,” I said. “Stay with the room.”
Her guards peeled smoothly off the walls to flank us, four shadows in dress uniform. And a fifth shadow appeared at my elbow, smaller, bouncing on his toes.
“I can come,” Thorin said. “I can guard her door. I’m not tired