Chapter 17 The Awakening Of The Moon Queen

• Dawn arrived quietly.
• The skies above the kingdom painted a soft canvas of lilac and gold, the calm before a storm no one could yet name. Yet within the Moon Palace, that calm was charged—restless with movement, whispers, and the hum of power that had long slumbered beneath its walls.
• In the Queen’s Garden—untouched for years—Lucia stood barefoot on the dew-kissed grass, her arms outstretched toward the rising sun.