“Moonlight is magic.”

Trigger/Content warnings may be considered spoilers about certain themes or plot twists in the story
TW/CW: Child abandonment; Mild gore/blood; Death of an animal

Once a year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby in the woods as a sacrifice to the forest witch, and once a year, Xan finds a baby in the woods left by the people of the Protectorate but she doesn’t know why. She feeds them starlight and hands them off to loving families in other cities, until this year when she accidentally fed the baby moonlight.This was a really lovely, heartwarming story. I really enjoyed how everything came together in a pretty neat bow at the end, and how the magic never truly faded through the whole story. The only part I didn't enjoy was one scene which felt highly unnecessary especially for the target audience of the book. I think this is a really good lesson on how unhealed pain and trauma can turn into something really unpleasant.