The plane back to Florida was delayed nearly two hours, but other than that, it was a completely mediocre ride. The snacks were meh, but Luna still loved the feeling of the plane starting up. Being pulled backward for that small instant, the way gravity made her feel like they were really going fast as they started to get up to the proper altitude. It was exhilarating. The way back down was almost the same, but it wasn’t nearly as good.
It was on the plane that Luna realized that Polaris could see everything she saw, and Polaris taught Luna how to activate her ‘Telepathy’ skill to speak to them without startling others near her on the plane. She and Polaris decided that the way Luna had her character sheet was kinda… all over the place. There was too much information all at once, especially when the System didn’t take into account her whole power, just the power it directly categorized or gave her. They both also agreed that a total revamp should wait until she turned in her final [ System Installation ] quest. For now, she just glances at her character sheet while she waits for her brother to come to the airport and pick her up.
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 16.6576%">Character Sheet</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 16.6576%">Shop</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 16.6576%">Cultivation</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 16.6576%">Skills</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 16.8214%">NON</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 16.5483%">NON</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3151%; text-align: center" colspan="2">General Information</td>
<td style="width: 33.3151%; text-align: center" colspan="2">Attributes</td>
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<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Name</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Luna Alicea Gonzalez</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Strength</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">17 { 100 }</td>
<td style="width: 16.8214%; text-align: center">Superhuman</td>
<td style="width: 16.5483%; text-align: center">Skilled</td>
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<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Nature</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Human</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Dexterity</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">20 { 100 }</td>
<td style="width: 16.8214%; text-align: center">Mana Core</td>
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<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Alignment</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Earth ( Humans )</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Constitution</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">16 { 105 }</td>
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<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Tier</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">0</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Intelligence</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">29 { 115 }</td>
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<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Level</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">0</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Wisdom</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">25 { 120 }</td>
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<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">F Grade Credits</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">32,400</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Charisma</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">24 { 105 }</td>
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<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Character Points</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">10</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">Luck</td>
<td style="width: 16.6576%; text-align: center">30 { 100 }</td>
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<td style="width: 49.9727%; text-align: center" colspan="3">System Installation IIII</td>
<td style="width: 50.0273%; text-align: center" colspan="3">System Installation V</td>
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<td style="width: 100%; text-align: center" colspan="6">Limited Quests</td>
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<td style="width: 49.9727%; text-align: center" colspan="3">On A Roll II</td>
<td style="width: 50.0273%; text-align: center" colspan="3">The 15 Gates { Cultivation }</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 49.9727%" colspan="3">Condensing Mana { Cultivation }</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 50.0273%" colspan="3">Mana Core { Cultivation }</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 49.9727%" colspan="3">Core Compression { Cultivation }</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 50.0273%" colspan="3">Circuit Soul { Cultivation }</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 33.3151%" colspan="2">Breath Of Life</td>
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Luna learned a lot about the system and how different things interact with each other, but much was still not able to be learned. She at least learned the difference between ‘Level’ and ‘Tier’. Levels are gained with experience which can be gained in a multitude of ways which Luna doesn’t have access to yet because she doesn’t have the ‘Class’ or ‘Job’ systems.
More importantly, that ‘0/100’ from character sheets past is a percentile to her next level, not an actual number of individual points. She will need more experience to level than someone else to make up for her increased power at her level. Polaris could make it an exact number, but that won’t won’t be much of a help, and would honestly make her focus too much on the pure numbers. A percentage is better for her mental health.
Tier is the really interesting thing. It’s referring to her system given ‘Ability Tier’, basically a rating of how capable she is, though it seems to focus mostly on combat ability. If Luna had gotten into a fight at some time during these last 6 months, she would have been given a ‘Tier’ based on her best showing.
Tier determines things like if she would get a warning from the system if she entered a dangerous area, as well as acting as a limiting factor for some items or abilities within the Shop. For example, to buy the next level of a cultivation ability in the shop, you need to first buy the base form of the ability and be of a requisite ‘tier’.
Tier is listed on an F -> SSS+ scale, with each level having a number and a ‘Plus’ and ‘Minus’. 0 is only shown if the system hasn’t assessed you yet. ‘F- 10’ is the lowest level. Where ‘F+ 1’ is the highest F grade Tier. it seems overly granular where each letter grade has 30 inner ranks, but apparently there is a really big difference between each letter grade. Based on the stories Jessabelle read, she can believe it. She also believes that the plus and minus would have vast gaps in the higher grades as well.
This made Luna think about joining a boxing club to try and increase her Tier early and see if she could get some Limited Quests that way. She even had the idea of going around like a masked vigilante, fighting crime and helping people. Ultimately, she decided that both would be too risky. There just wasn’t enough in it to potentially risk her magic getting found out now that she knows that people won’t have their minds clouded by the system.
“Hey stinker,” said Michael, lightly kicking Luna’s leg.
Luna let out a very feminine yelp and her tan face quickly turned red as embarrassment flushed through her.
“Asshole!”
“Well maybe if you checked your phone you would have seen my text asking where you were,” said Michael, the humor in his face draining away.
Michael grabs his sibling and pulls her into a hug. It was… tight. Luna holds him back, even as he began to shudder and shake in her arms.
“Oh… hey,” Luna said trying to comfort her brother, “I’m here, I’m okay.”
Michael’s grip grew even tighter. He tried speaking, but each syllable was stopped by sobs. She could only make out the word ‘scared’, but the sentiment was clear.
Luna felt tears well up in her own eyes. Luna hadn’t realized just how scary it must have been for her brother. To get a call from a man he barely knew, but that his sibling trusted saying that she collapsed. Hector had to tell her brother about the seizures and stroke. Luna was already the ‘baby’ of the family as the youngest, had already left on her own and was homeless for a time. To hear how close she was to death frightened them all.
It took nearly two minutes of comforting for Michael to be able to pull away and speak normally. Both of them took a second to wipe tears off their eyes.
“Let’s head home, yeah?” asked Michael, trying to regain some of his ‘fun big brother’ energy.
“Yeah… I have a feeling that everyone at home is going to have the same reaction you had,” said Luna.
“Yeah,” confirmed Michael, “Mom especially is going to hold you for an hour at least before she lets you go.”
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Michael was wrong. Luna’s mom didn’t let go of her for nearly three hours after she got home. They watched Luna’s favorite movie, the old Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie from before she was born. They had Luna’s favorite food, homemade spaghetti and meatballs. If she had presents she would have thought this was a birthday celebration, but that is still three months out.
No, they just wanted Luna to be comfortable and safe. None of them liked her moving too much, thinking her as a fragile vase that could shatter at any moment. It makes some sense. Luna’s godfather, Bill, had died of a stroke when he looked to be perfectly healthy four years ago. Luna’s situation sang the same tune, and none of them wanted to hear the music.
Now though, Luna was finally given a moment to herself that wasn’t in the bathroom. Everyone was heading to bed, but they made sure Luna took some sleeping medicine. When Luna finally got to her room, she saw that it had been restructured. Namely in that her old loft bed was gone. They left the stairs, but now, Luna has a normal bed that was on the ground. In fact, it was actually quite short, not allowing for any storage underneath.
Luna was tempted to just lie down and sleep, but she knew there were things that were more important. Luna had spent the time her plane was delayed to finish her [ Daily Conditioning ] radiant quest. Luna went and locked her door before she summoned a cloud of opalescent light in front of her. She did a few experiments to learn the basics of controlling the light, and it was frighteningly easy.
Luna presses the cloud of light into her chest, letting out a relaxed moan as the energy ran through her, purging the sleep drugs from her system while restoring her stamina and healing her fatigue on its way. The excess energy broke back down into regular mana, which the mana gate on her left hand drank in with greed.
‘ Polaris, accept the quest, ’ Luna said telepathically.
‘ On it. ’
An instant later, Luna felt a sudden shift within herself. Polaris was controlling the integration, cataloging everything she was gaining. She waited for a few moments, waiting to see if anything else happened. When nothing did she asked Polaris for details.
‘ What’s the status? ’
‘ The information is still coming in, but here is an overview, ’ responded her helpful AI.
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Character Updates!
Quest Completed: System Integration IIII
System: Class Integrated
Basic Overview: Gain levels towards a class from gaining experience. Every 5 levels you gain the ability to choose a class based on your past actions. The longer you wait, the higher grade of class you can gain. You must choose a class before you can progress beyond level 25. Classes have a maximum level, when you reach that level you may upgrade the class to the next tier from a group of options provided by the system from your past actions.
System: Jobs Integrated
Basic Overview: Collect different aspects of yourself such as your stats, abilities, skills, and cultivation into a specific ‘Job’. Jobs grant boosts to everything related to that Job. Jobs take a portion of your experience, while also allowing you to gain experience from doing actions relating to that Job. Each Job has a level cap depending on the parts put into the job. Once the job has reached its maximum level, you may upgrade the job to the next tier from a group of options provided by the system from your past actions.
Main Differences
All classes are directly tied to combat in some way or another, additionally, Classes don’t grant any passive benefits, instead granting abilities at different levels depending on the class.
Jobs on the other hand, have many more options. You also do not have a limit on the number of jobs you may gain, you just can’t add the same thing to multiple jobs. For example, Intelligence cannot be added to 2 different jobs. Additionally, new aspects can be added to a job after you have gained the job allowing you further control on their development, whereas Classes cannot be changed in any way until the level cap has been reached.
System: Character Points Expanded
Basic Overview: Character Points may be gained through experience, You gain 20 points every 10% progress you make to your next level. This number can grow or shrink depending on your chosen class. Additionally, Character Points may be spent to increase the level of a skill tied to a Job, or gain a Job appropriate skill, cost depending on rank of the Job, rarity of the Skill, and Skill level.
Limited Quest Gained, [ Path Of The Gods II ]
Quest Changes
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[ On A Roll II ] Experience Packages reward changed to E- Grade Experience Package
[ The 16 Gates ] gains F Grade Experience Package reward
[ Condensing Mana ] gains F+ Grade Experience Package reward
[ Mana Core ] gains 3 F+ Grade Experience Package reward
[ Core Compression ] gains E Grade Experience Package reward
[ Circuit Soul ] gains F Grade Experience Package reward
[ Daily Conditioning ] gains F- Grade Experience Package as reward
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‘ Polaris, I love you, ’ Luna said frankly, having everything laid out so simply and plainly made it so easy to understand. It took Luna nearly 11 hours to get her first skill, but this made gaining classes and jobs so simple to understand. Luna could probably make a Job right now if she felt the confidence to.
‘ Quite narcissistic don’t you think Luna, Loving an aspect of your own personality. ’
‘ You know as well as I do that you are already diverging from me, You sound much more human, and you have existed for less than 24 hours, anyway, lemme check out the new quest. ’
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Limited Quest: [ Path Of The Gods II ]
You have completed the first step to truly going beyond your limitations and taking charge of your destiny. Now you must take the first step on your path. No matter what you choose, you are always going towards your destination, no matter the missteps. Be bold, fight with ferocity, live!
Objective: Gain an F+ or higher grade Class 0/1
Reward: Class Appropriate Skill Card
Objective: Gain an F+ or higher grade Job 0/1
Extra Reward: Job Appropriate Essence
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‘ This quest has hidden objectives, but I can’t really see what they are, ’ said Polaris.
‘ Probably something to have to do with the rank of the job itself, say Common, Rare, Epic etcetera, The big thing to me is the mention of Essences, I was wondering when those would show up, you got an idea of what they are Polaris, What about awakening stones? ’
‘ Essences… essences… ’ Polaris mused, before a new overview prompt appeared in Luna’s vision.
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Essence Overview
Essences are a way to aspect a part of your body and soul toward a specific aspect of the universe. They increase affinity and grant an ability tied to that Essence similar to an Ability Card.
Jobs may only be tied to 1 essence at a time, and you may only ever have a maximum of 4 essences at a time.
If you have at least 2 essences, they may be merged into a Confluence Essence, representing a merging of the essences and the abilities granted. If these essences were tied to a Job, both jobs must reach Max Level and the two jobs will be merged into 1 job with an appropriate confluence that merges all of the ideas within both jobs together.
Awakening Stones may be used to gain new abilities from Essences. The abilities gained are tied to the Awakening Stone’s type, Essence Affinity, and the job the Essence is tied to. Awakening Stones cannot be used without a job.
Essences must be found or won, but common Awakening Stones can be bought in the shop for 10,000 F Grade Credits, or 7,500 Credits for a lottery style roll that could give up to rare Awakening Stones if you get lucky.
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‘ Huh, it seems like Jobs are the main way to grow in strength in this system, with Classes being more of a prerequisite, ’ said Luna.
So many things interact with Jobs, and since Essences can grant unique abilities, classes aren’t unique in that ability, lowering the appeal of classes in her eyes.
‘ That doesn’t mean you should ignore Classes, ’ said Polaris, ‘ Classes have a direct offensive focus, whereas Jobs are only as offensively focused as you make them, additionally, the more jobs you have the slower everything levels. ’
‘ Yeah I understand that, but tell me, think we should complete the final [ System Integration ] quest, or turn in these quests now? ’
‘ If you turn in the final [ System Integration ] quest you will lose access to your Radiant Quests, They are part of this ‘Tutorial’ phase. ’
‘ What?! ’ asked Luna, worried.
‘ You are in a Tutorial right now, one in which you are being graded based on how strong you get and how fast you get there, with the latter part mattering more than the former the closer we get to the Apocalypse Countdown’s end. ’
Luna wasn’t dumb, nor was she unable to see the parallels to her stories. She mostly needed to know where she stood in the system''s eyes before she made any final decisions.
‘ What’s my current grade? ’
‘ Right now I can tell you that you are slightly exceeding expectations right now, if I could give it a grade, you have a B, and before you broke open your Mana Gate, you were at a D-, barely above failing the system’s expectations. ’
Luna''s mind ground to a halt as she took in that information. Was she was really expected to rush forward without any sort of plan, without even knowing what the rest of her system integration would grand her? No, that can’t be it, the System simply thought she spent too long getting to her power level before she gained her Cultivation Ability. Luna likely went from a D to a B by jumping so many of the challenges with her talent choice. It also meant that if Luna did something similar she could jump even more letter grades.
‘ I want an A+, '' said Luna, resolve growing in her heart, '' We aren’t turning in the quest just yet. ’
‘ What will you try before we complete integration,’ asked Polaris, ‘ You don’t want to rush too far and squander opportunities you can only fully utilize after the integration or even the start of the apocalypse. ’
Luna thought on it for a moment and came up with a rather simple plan.
‘ I will get more Cultivation abilities and complete as many of their quests as I can before I complete my [ 16 Gates ] quest, Once that quest has been turned in, we will finish [ System Integration ], It''s tempting, but I won’t choose a class or job until after I use my [ Character Overhaul ] ability, I''d rather know about how they might get changed by my final racial choice. ’
It hurt Luna to wait for her [ Character Overhaul ] ability, as it could help her transition immediately as well as give Luna her dream body. All she can tell herself is that she has lived so long looking the way she does now, she can wait an extra couple of weeks.
‘ Do I have the same options for Cultivation abilities Polaris? ’
‘ Unless you tell me any more specifics you want, then yes. ’
Now that Luna isn’t on a self imposed time crunch and knows what Classes and Jobs do she has a much better idea of what she wants. Which is basically more general boosts that compound with her current abilities or help Polaris.
‘ I’ll take two Cultivation abilities, I want both to be able to be boosted by my talents, More importantly, I want one that can help you directly to help with the [ AI Cultivation ] path, I also want to leave 1 Mind and Body shop ability slot open, even if my second Soul Slot is taken. ’
Polaris goes silent for a second, before coming back.
‘ You have two pairs of choices, showing them now. ’
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Dao Cultivator ( Quartz )
Requirements: At least 50% Affinity
Start on the path of cultivating the holy Dao within your soul, empowering your soul.
This ability can be upgraded naturally or through further shop purchases.
Cost: 5000 F Grade Shop Credits ( 50% Off! )
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Domain Cultivator ( Quartz )
Requirements: At least 50% Affinity
Start on the path of cultivating a domain within your spirit using your insights into yourself and your place in the universe to empower your mind and body.
This ability can be upgraded naturally or through further shop purchases.
Cost: 5000 F Grade Shop Credits ( 50% Off! )
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‘ Here is the second pair. ’
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Heart Cultivator ( Quartz )
Requirements: At least 50% Affinity
Start on the path of cultivating your heart, reaffirming your path to the cosmos and empowering your mind and soul.
This ability can be upgraded naturally or through further shop purchases.
Cost: 5000 F Grade Shop Credits ( 50% Off! )
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Monster Core Cultivator ( Quartz )
Requirements: Blue Magic Affinity <75% OR 4 Essences OR Tamer Style Class
Start on the path of cultivating Essence by absorbing and purifying Monster Cores to empower your body.
This ability can be upgraded naturally or through further shop purchases.
Cost: 5000 F Grade Shop Credits ( 50% Off! )
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‘ By the way, what does the ‘Quartz’ mean in the cultivation abilities, ’ Luna asked absently.
‘ It is the aura color you show, when you raise your cultivation up a grade it changes to a different color of the rainbow, It was defaulted to ‘Quartz’ because it’s following the naming convention of the Sufficiently Advanced Magic series because of your love of the series, I can change it over to Grade if you wish. ’
‘ Nah, I like it,’ said Luna, ‘ Also, just to make sure, the ‘Empower your ‘X’ part of all of these descriptions purely refers to how many shop slots it takes up? ’
‘ Yes, It seems quite confusing, but makes perfect sense if you can see the back end of the system, To put it simply, Shop Abilities are tied to a different aspect of your soul, no matter what, the tiers of shop abilities simply refer to how deeply within your soul they are tied. ’
‘ Huh, That’s interesting, but now I need to make some difficult choices. ’
Difficult choices indeed. In truth, Luna kinda wanted them all, but she simply couldn’t afford them. She knew what Dao and Domain cultivation were. The first is from Defiance of The Fall, and the second from Path of Ascension. If Luna could start the process thanks to her other cultivation ability and her immense talents in Light, Dark, and Blue magic they would be the obvious choice. She just doesn’t know how easy that would be. They were based on enlightenment and self actualization with the universe. She might really need to go to Tibet and spend some time looking for some monks to talk with.
The real question when looking at the second pair of options was simple. Did Luna think she could handle Heart cultivation? Did she have a firm enough path that she was willing to confront it with Heart Cultivation? Would it perhaps help her strengthen her path forward?
No. That was what Luna was able to come to in the end. She simply wasn’t ready to handle something as confronting as Heart Cultivation so early on her path. As useful as Monster Core cultivation was, if it meshed well with Heart Cultivation she would need to wait on that one too.
‘ Lemme go to the bathroom before we accept the first pair, ’ said Luna. In preparation, she bought another bottle of Crystal Wash for another 1000 credits. It was expensive, and probably a bad choice, but the first time she enjoyed Crystal Wash made her addicted to the stuff. As soon as she has a steady flow of credits she will likely spend a ton on it.
Once Luna was in the shower she bought the cultivation abilities. In doing so, her last two shop discounts were used. It took longer for the purge to come, but when it came Luna felt horrid. Two cultivation abilities were worse on her than breaking through multiple bottlenecks at once, even if the total amount of purge was less. She used the Crystal Wash as soon as she was no longer at risk of collapsing from the nausea.
‘ Another 9 hours for complete integration unless you get some sleep, ’ warned Polaris.
‘ I’m beat, Let’s just leave looking into it for tomorrow. ’
‘ And for your other obligations? ’ asked Polaris, almost mentally nudging Luna to her mother’s room across the house.
Luna winced, but that shower gave her time to think and muse things over. Luna went on her computer, trying to find apartments for rent that were isolated near the edge of town.
‘ Given the family’s reaction to your medical issues, is this really something you want to splash on them right away, ’ asked Polaris
‘ It’s not a matter of their wants, but my needs, and I need a place where I can practice magic and cultivation without being seen, Ma won’t like it, but she will need to learn to live with it. ’
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“My daughter’s gonna be an author, My daughter’s gonna be an author, My daughter’s gonna be an author!” chanted Luna’s mom.
Michael and Jackson quickly came over to see the commotion, confused about what was happening. They saw their mom holding onto Luna in a huge hug. She squealed like a teenage girl, forcing her and Luna to jump. George was out at work. He was gonna be so sad to have missed the chance to see his wife so happy after all of the tears about Luna’s stroke.
“Luna’s moving out to focus on her writing, she already found an apartment!” said Luna’s mom.
Luna had told them about the ‘lottery win’ before she ever left for Washington. Said that she was going to burn some money and decide what she was going to do in the future. It seems that Luna had overestimated how angry her mother would be about Luna leaving the nest and squandering her schooling opportunities all at the same time to become an ‘independent author’.
Both Michael and Jackson came over and joined the Hug, all jumping together and making one heck of a racket.
“My baby is going to be an author!”
Luna had extremely overestimated how bad the reaction would be.