Selene’s POV

The months that followed were the quietest I had known in years.

For the first time, I could walk through the capital without hearing the alarm bells of war.

The scars were still there. Broken walls had not yet been rebuilt, some buildings remained blackened by fire, and the graves of those we had lost filled a quiet section beyond the eastern gate.

But life had returned.

Children played between the houses while merchants filled the streets with familiar voices. Warriors trained in the courtyards, no longer preparing for an enemy that could appear at any moment.

Lunaria was healing.

And so was I.

I had united the...