Aether's Obsession
I lay there for what felt like a significant portion of the night and watched the glow of my orb on the ceiling and thought about the sovereign's face and the warmth in my chest and the twelve hundred questions I had about the citadel that nobody had answered yet.
Eventually, I got up.
The corridor at night was something else.
All twelve moons were up, I had not known, until tonight, that this was possible, that a sky could hold that many and still look like a sky rather than a collision, visible through the floor-to-ceiling crystal panels that ran the length of the outer wall. Some of them were near enough to show surface detail, enormous and luminous, hanging in the dark above the capital