Some days, Cinder really missed when her only connection to royalty was Peony's obsession with Kai. She was so glad the people of Luna weren't suffering under oppressive dictatorship anymore, but the weight of responsibility made breathing a little hard sometimes (there was a joke about the moon's atmosphere in there).
Some days, she missed when people had only been interested in her because she was a fugitive. She was glad not to be living in constant fear—she was glad that her friends were happily living lives they were supposed to—but the weight of loneliness was crushing sometimes.
