Rafael's Point of View
The sun hangs high over the Lunaris clearing, warm and bright against the stretch of open land that rolls out before the forest. The air hums with energy, the kind that stirs in your bones before a run. Wolves from Octavia’s pack, warriors and younglings alike, gather near the tree line, shifting restlessly, their laughter and low conversations drifting like wind through the grass.
I stand with the others, Kai, Trevor, Alec, Logan, Clary, and the rest of us from the academy, just behind Luna Selene, Jace, Alpha Jordan and Octavia. The sight of her, standing next to her family, next to her father, her hair catching in the sunlight, pulls at something in my chest I cannot quite bury, no matter how hard I have tried since that night.
Her home suits her. The confidenc
