Luna made a sound that was specifically not commentary.
"You're handling this well," Orion told her.
"I'm not handling anything," she said. "I have no feelings about this."
"You have feelings about everything," he said.
"Hehe." The warmth came back reluctantly, which was the most honest version of it. "Cipher is a useful name."
"Thank you," he said.
"I wasn't complimenting you," she said.
"I know," he said.
She came across the training ground and pressed her face against his shoulder with the specific energy of someone registering a position they'd decided was still theirs regardless of additional variables.
Cipher looked at her.
Luna looked at Cipher.
A moment.
Then Cipher's eyes cycled through one full sequence and settled.
Luna's tail moved once. "It's reading me."
"Formation Read works on mana structures," Orion said. "You're a mana structure."
"I'm a person," Luna said.
"You're a mana structure that is also a person," he said.
She stared at him.
