#Chapter 149: Heroes Honored

Kane POV Two months of proper courtship had changed everything between Aurora and me. The frantic, terror-fueled push and pull that once defined us was finally gone. What grew in its place felt solid. Real. Like something we'd actually chosen instead of stumbled into during a crisis. I courted Aurora by paying attention to who she really was. Not the Luna everyone expected her to be. Not the political figure people whispered about. Just Aurora—the woman who got excited about governance theories and stayed up late sketching out territorial improvement plans. "Found this at a market yesterday," I said one afternoon, handing her a leather-bound book I'd tracked down from three different traders. "Thought you might like reading about those border negotiations from the 1800s." Her whole face changed when she opened it. "Kane, this is amazing!" She flipped through pages like she'd discovered treasure. "Look at these case studies on alliance building. Some of these techniques could co