Chapter 18

“She kept crying ‘Zaine, please,’” Adrian remembered. “It was heartbreaking to see such a remarkable woman be diminished to this… mess. Then she looked at Kendel Omaren, the Elven Celestial Councilman, and said, ‘please.’”

“We didn’t know why she looked at him.” Sol’s face had twisted into this look of confusion, “Kendel and Luna had hardly known each other. At least, that’s why I thought initially, but then Kendel got up and went down to the floor where Luna was, and she crawled to him. Crawled. I never thought I’d see my sister fall so far, but she crawled, and he knelt down and caressed her face like they’d been lovers.”