Natalia:
A week passed.
And somehow, everything… shifted again.
Not loudly. Not drastically. But enough that I felt it in the way people looked at me. And it was in the way that they treated me.
The training grounds were my haven now. They were mostly where I spent my day when I wasn't inside, and even then I wasn't alone anymore.
I found myself going back there day after day, sometimes even before breakfast as I worked my way towards the training.
The younglings greeted me with unfiltered excitement, their squeals and laughter echoing through the field as they rushed to show me what they had learned, or begged me to show them something new. And it amazed me how fast they learned.
They started calling me Luna.
Not because they were told to.
But because they wanted to.
It caught
