LUNA AQUAMARINE'S POV Two days had passed since Alexander found out I couldn't shift and read, but surprisingly, things had been...fine between us. I had fallen into a routine, with him teaching me to write in the mornings, and in the afternoons, I was in his workshop. The scroll was now somewhere in the room; we had abandoned it, at least for now. As I walked with Juliet, I saw Gaia approaching us with Marcus and Thaddeus. Yes, I had just found out that Marcus and Thaddeus were only three years older than me, but for some reason unknown to people, they looked like they were in their 40s. The closer we got, the more Gaia's smile widened, and her gaze narrowed. She stopped in front of me and kept moving in the same direction as me, blocking my path on purpose. For two days, she had

