Chapter 34

“Mom, what are you doing here?”

Silas’s voice was low, controlled, but the sight of his mother waiting in his office tugged at him. After speaking with Dr. Thorne about Nyssa, he had only wanted a moment of solitude to gather his thoughts. Instead, the familiar figure of his mother, Maura—the previous Luna—sat gracefully in the chair across from his desk, her hands folded neatly in her lap, her ey