Chapter 37 – New Maids

Lyra

The ceremonial words still seemed to linger in the air like the residual charge after a lightning strike. I stood there, Gabriel's possessive grasp on my arm the only thing keeping me tethered as the world spun dizzyingly around me.

"Let them talk all they want, you have now crowned Lyra as your Luna!" He let a small smile at me, soothing my worries.

"Congratulations, my Luna." Kira was the first to break through the crackle of that numinous silence, gliding forward with her ageless elegance. Her warm smile brimmed with genuine affection as she reached up to caress my flushed cheek. "You've embraced your sacred destiny as the Blackmoons Luna."

"Indeed," Talon's granite rumble followed like a rolling thunder-peal. The towering Beta dropped to one knee before me in an unmistakable gesture of fealty. "The crown Luna of our pack. My claws are yours to command, Luna Lyra."

I felt the weight of this pivotal transition like an almost physical burden settling across my shoulders.

Weeks