Thor Cressors. He lost one Luna and got a better one back. We all lost our father yet he got the throne. He abandoned the throne for a year and I spent every second of that time working to prove myself—tracking the True Bloods, strengthening my standing before the tribunals. But what did I get? Nothing. And what did he get? All the glory for finding a handful of people we all worked together to save. It’s always Roar. It always has to be Roar. I am tired. I am tired— I am seething. I want the throne. All my life, I have wanted it. Roar didn’t want it—it was a burden to him. Many times, he said it. And yet, despite my hunger for it, despite my work, the throne is his. I need to drown this out. I cannot even stay in the Moon Grave Castle for long—it suffocates me with the weight of my

