"Welcome home, Luna." The one in the middle was the man that spoke. His hair was the thickest of them all, his skin, very tanned, his eyes, decorated with a black charcoal around it and his gaze very intense. Jade's breathing got shallow as she watched them kneel in front of her. They knew she was coming? They recognized her? How? Her thoughts filled with so many questions. She also wondered if her father was the one that had said something about her arrival. Surely he couldn't have, right? Had he been waiting for her to come back to him? Surely that wasn't the case. How did he even know she would come? Wasn't he ashamed of his baby girl, years ago? What changed? Jade looked at each of them, giving their respect to her. It felt foreign, being in power. In Levelland, she had been the on

