The meeting with her father didn't last as long as Luna had feared.
Because just as they had planned, she and her siblings presented their father with the version they had agreed on.
That they had all set aside their differences and united to put Jack in his place.
Their father remained in silence while he listened to everything and, in the end, gave his approval to the formation of the new government.
A coalition between Luna and her siblings, a division of power that, while imperfect, was a thousand times preferable to the chaos Jack would have caused sooner or later.
But he set one condition.
'Spare Jack's life.'
The request fell like a bucket of cold water, especially on the brothers, who after years of humiliations would have preferred to see him exiled to the most remote corner of the continent, or rotting in the palace's deepest cell.
