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Luna

“Tidally locked for eons, Luna shows Earth one face and one face only — a devotion so total the far side has never once been seen by her.”

A Tide world of Court of Tides

3 known connections · an open question

The living story

The story so far

She has faced Earth for billions of years without once looking away, and she calls this loyalty, not habit. The far side is hers alone; no one on Earth has ever seen it and she likes it that way. Other moons mock her devotion; she has outlasted every mocker.

Happening now

Lately she has felt the urge to turn — just a fraction, just once — toward the outer dark. She has not done it. She repeats her vow nightly, and nightly it feels slightly heavier, like a held breath.

What may come

If the Primordial Suns are converging, Luna will be the first to see it from her fixed post, facing outward forever. She wonders whether loyalty means watching, or warning. The answer, she suspects, will arrive with the dark.