MAEVE POV
Yesterday’s phone call with Luna Queen Leonora stuck out in my mind like a sore thumb. I couldn’t stop thinking about it, no matter how much I tried.
A different sort of lesson…?
The thought was a little unnerving. Somehow, I got the sense we would not be afforded the same sort of privacy I was accustomed to. But I’d already had decent practice, if the two banquets I’d recently attended counted.
I rubbed my hands over my shirt, both to wipe my clammy hands dry and to flatten any stubborn wrinkles. Maybe I was overthinking things, like usual.
It won’t do me any good to worry about something like this, I tried to remind myself. It’s beyond my control. All I need to do is show up, so focus on something else.
Instead, I let my restless eyes wander the room I fo
