After Varek went off to attend to whatever duties he needed to handle now he was back in the capital, Mona showed me thoroughly about my rooms before leaving with a promise to return soon with the clothing I would be borrowing from Lyra and the tailor who would be making the rest of my wardrobe. Once left alone, I took a moment to really sink into the moment. This was not at all what I pictured my life like two days ago, and even now, it took sheer force of will to really accept that this was my new reality. Suddenly, I was expected to become someone I had never even contemplated becoming. A royal. And not just any royal, but the new Luna. For years, it had been whispered in small groups all around the kingdom that the King desperately needed a Luna, that his insistence that he wait was a
