~Selene's POV~
Six months after arriving in Silvermere, Selene marks the milestone the only way she has learned to mark anything that matters, quietly, privately, without ceremony attached to it, the way she has marked every month before this one since the day she first arrived with nothing but a velvet box and her mother beside her in the car.
The twins themselves have changed enough now that the change is impossible to ignore even in passing, even by someone less attentive than she has trained herself to become. Lior pulls himself to standing against any piece of furniture sturdy enough to support him, his face set with the particular determination of someone who has decided gravity is merely an obstacle he intends to overcome through sheer persistence rather than patience. He has fall
