Exhaustion from the stresses of the last thirty days was like a heavy hand on his shoulder, weighing him down. Dread over what he would find when he returned to the temple gnawed at him. He had resigned himself to the fact that the little girl was gone, her mind destroyed by the trauma of what ha...
Luna awoke half an hour later and came charging out of the drawing room to where I stood waiting in the corridor. “I am sorry. I am sorry, Luna. I—” She slapped me and then slapped me again. Soon she was delivering furious slaps across my head and chest. “Luna, please stop. You will hurt yourself...