Still tied to the punishment pole, Maggie finally wakes to her mother stroking her hair. She looks up and just notices Astrid staring out into the trees in a trance. Astrid hasn’t slept a wink the entire night, not because she is cold or because she has never done it rough, it is because she can’t get Cora out of her mind.
The scene replaying over and over. She had just resumed luna duties, she wanted to stay home for longer, she wanted to stay home until Cora was one-year-old. But Simon was swamped with work so he talked her into working two days a week. It was the second week back and when she got home expecting to be able to grab her baby daughter and hold her close, all she got back was her corpse, her sweet little girl that was just smiling that morning was so destroyed that she coul
