Chapter 250 Emotional Strain

• POV: Luna
• The days following the artifact bonding were the hardest yet. Not because of physical danger. Not because of immediate threats. But because the emotional weight finally caught up with everything we'd survived, everything we'd sacrificed, everything we'd become.
• I found myself in my dorm room, staring at the ceiling, unable to sleep despite exhaustion. The artifact connection hummed through my mark constantly. A reminder. A burden. A responsibility that never stopped demanding attention.