No matter what, the day didn't feel like Christmas to her.She remembered years ago, when she had been just a little kid, and the word had been enough to make her happy. Nothing stirred in her now. Her childhood felt like it had been in another life. As she sat alone in her room with tears drying to her face, she resolved that no matter what the calendar said, it wasn't Christmas.If it was, she'd feel happy, not depressed.

You broke the chain, Luna. Of all his victims, you were the only one that ever walked away and he hasn’t forgotten.

That’s what he is—a snake, a dangerous predator—and here I am, a mouse…waiting to be devoured.Luna Ketz, Rise Above Twilight

He really did do something to me, and I was too busy falling for it to realize what it was. Good job on a beautiful web, spider.Excerpt from Rise Above Twilight