Chapter 194

Author’s POV

Council’s Hall.

It is truly time for judgement and justice has to be served. Every member who gathered inside the hall carried the same unspoken question,would there be mercy, or would justice take its full course this time?

Eva stood in the center of the room, her hands bound in cuffs. Her once-perfect hair hung limp around her face, her eyes swollen and red from days without rest. The defiant spark that had always lived in her was gone. Who stood there wasn’t the same Eva who once walked proudly through the halls, convinced she would be Luna. This was a girl stripped of pride, shaking, and lost.

Kieran sat at the head of the long table . On one side sat Sienna, calm but pale, her hands folded tightly in her lap. Around them, the council members murmured among themselves,Elder Maeron,