I wash my hands until the water runs clear and dress and put myself back together, and by the time I walk into the temple, I am the Luna again, clean, composed, and unreadable.
Victoria is ahead of me in the great cool hall but she is not alone.
She is standing close to one of the serving omegas, the two of them speaking low, heads near, and something about the shape of it stops me before they see me.
They seem familiar with each other.
The omega looks up and sees me and steps back from Victoria smoothly, and dips into a bow.
"Luna. Be welcome in the goddess's house."
I know her face. Nima.
It takes me a moment, because it has been years and she has changed, but I know it. She is Blood Oak. She left the pack a long time ago, before I was Luna, and if my memory is not lying to me she
