Eleanora’s POV

I had dreamed of this day as a child but never like this.

Never with the Hollow pulsing beneath my bare feet.

Never with power coiling gently around my fingers like a second skin.

And never with my heart this full.

The gown shimmered like moonlit water, woven from Lunar Bloom silk by the Emerald pack’s seamstresses, lined with Sapphire symbols stitched by my people. Two colors, one design, two bloodlines, one future.

Nova stepped in front of me, adjusting the tiny silver crown placed behind my ear. “I always knew you’d get your fairy-tale ending.”

I gave her a look. “We’re not at the ending, Nova. Just...