REJECTED BY THE MOON
"She went very quiet, Rory. The kind of quiet that means she's deciding how much to lie, and how much she can get away with not saying at all."
"Did she lie," I asked.
"I don't know," Elara admitted. "But she told me something I don't think she meant to. She said the wanderer's name once, a long time ago, when I was young enough that I'd mostly forgotten it until last night jogged the memory loose again."
"What name," I asked, though something in my chest had already started to brace itself.
Elara's throat worked before she finally answered. "Wren."
Akira's head came up sharply from the text she'd been studying. Her whole body went suddenly, completely still. "Say that again."
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