Lena’s POV
The war horns, those wailing horns of doom, roused me from uneasy slumber—I couldn’t remember the last time I’d slept properly aboveground—slicing through the stone walls of the fortified chamber in which Lucien had bribed, bullied and harassed me into taking residence. Buried under the earth as I was, I could feel shuddering tremors echoing through ash wood at the impact of Ash's forces smashing against Lucien's defences and imploding in a tsunami surge.
“Stand down, Luna,” the lead guard ordered, his hand going to his weapon in a perfectly efficient motion. His name was David and he was one of Lucien’s most loyal warriors for a few dozen years. "Do not leave this room, no matter what. That's what the Alpha is telling us."
But hiding while that man, who had been my home more
