This life continuously trapped on the breadline was not what I wanted, not forever.

As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.

But the wrath that I awaited did not descend. Instead, my young vis-à-vis merely looked melancholy.

The Earth occults the Moon during a lunar eclipse.