The Void Empress stepped closer, her robes trailing darkness that seemed to devour the crystal floor beneath her feet. Where her shadow touched Luna's beautiful creations, they withered and died.

"Surrender?" I laughed, though my heart was breaking from losing the connection to my mates. "Lady, you picked the wrong queens to threaten."

"Did I? You are trapped in a realm of your own making, cut off from your allies, facing a being who has consumed entire universes." She tilted her hooded head. ...