Luna and Clinkz ran through the shallow water up to the middle road. They could hear the fighting soldiers and followed the sound, going in the direction of the enemy town. After killing the enemy soldiers they circled back and then went into the woods at the top road. It was more likely to meet an enemy hero here than in the woods at the bottom road, but they stayed alert and killed the beasts under the trees while heading to the top road to check on their first tower there.

The soldiers were far away from first tower, having nearly reached second tower of the enemies, so they decided to go back. Maybe they would be able to win a fight against the dwarfen sniper and the female archer, but they didn't want to risk it. While they followed the road back to town they talked. In the woods they had to be silent to hear if somebody was approaching, but now they were relatively safe.

"How comes you are serving the Goddess of the Moon?" Clinkz asked.

"She has chosen me. It is a long story but to make it short, my cat Nova," she lightly patted its neck, "lured me into the Nightsilver Woods, though at the time I didn't know that name. That's where the guardians of the woods found me and declared that I had been chosen by the goddess herself and that I had the choice of pledging myself to her or leave and never return. It wasn't a hard choice. And since then I'm one of Her ever-loyal guardians, protecting the woods and all creatures within. I am the blade of the goddess. The cat returned to me at some time and now she is my companion." Luna smiled, petting the black fur of the animal she was riding.

"Have you ever seen Her?"

"The goddess?" Clinkz nodded.

"Yes, I have met Her. She isn't that reclusive though She doesn't like to meet strangers. She doesn't manifest with a real body but in an ethereal form, surrounded by the light of the moon. She always has time to talk with us if there is a problem, even though she is a goddess, and she makes sure we are protected as much as possible."

"You like being in Her service?"

"Yeah, I do." She smiled. "She is calm and gives off that vibe of peace. She is our steady centre, the one we can always rely on. One I can always rely on."

"She is a good leader, then."

"Yes, that she is. But she has chosen a leader for us from our ranks, the high priestess Tyrande, to do the actual leading, since the goddess doesn't engage in battle. She loathes violence, but since we don't have much of a choice when protecting the forest, we just try not to involve the goddess herself."

They entered the town and went to the safe zone. Luna was able to buy the first items for a sword enhancement called Yasha. It would make her quicker when attacking while increasing the damage of her glaives. Since they bounced from enemy to enemy, the damage increase would gain her much.

The others had already departed again but since they hadn't met them on the top road they surely would try to destroy second tower on the middle road. The two of them left the town in that direction.

"What have you done before you became a skeleton?" Luna asked.

"I was a protector of my land, just like you are now. But my liege wasn't a god or goddess but the mage who inflicted the magic on the demon I killed. He was our king. "

"How long ago was that?"

Clinkz looked at her from the side. "So long I have stopped counting the years."

Luna raised her brows. "Trying to brag about your lifespan?"

"I didn't know that was something to brag about."

Luna laughed. "Of course it is. It says something about your ability to survive. But since you can't die maybe it isn't the same."

"And how long have you served the goddess?"

She was still grinning and looking at him. "Ha, as if I would talk about my age!"

"Not so old then? And don't want to say it because it says nothing about your ability to survive?" His tone was a little teasing and Luna was delighted that he would play with her.

"No, but with women it is just the other way round. For who wants a female who is over thousand years old? That leaves the image of a wrinkled and crooked shrew, don't you think?"

"So you are over thousand years old? Well," he let his gaze travel her body up and down "I don't see any wrinkles and you don't look crooked to me. Maybe I have something with my eyes, then?"

"Yeah, it looks as if you don't have any."

Clinkz stopped and in an overly dramatic gesture put his hand on his face, as if searching for them. "Oh no, I don't have eyes?" His fingers reached the empty sockets. "You are right, I have no eyes! I must have lost them somewhere. I have to find them!" He started to look on the ground, as if searching, then up again. "How can I find them if I can't see? Oh wait, how can I see you if I can't see?"

Luna shook her head. "You are odd."

"What? Now I'm odd? I thought I was adorable! Damn," he muttered, "I have lost my favourite description of me."

Luna laughed again. It was kind of funny that he could joke about him being a skeleton. Though it was odd. But it also spoke of him having made peace with the fact. Like he had said, he didn't seem to be angry at the mage who had cursed him anymore. But she was sure it hadn't been easy for him and had taken a lot of time. It seemed, though she was old, he was way older.

Clinkz stared at her, all playfulness gone. But rather did he seem tense all at once. Luna frowned. "What's wrong?"

"You are unbelievably beautiful when you laugh. When you smile it is as if a light is shining that chases away all the shadows that linger around. Until there is nothing left of those shadows and I wonder why the hell I have just been angry. Or desperate. Or why I wanted to kill someone when I could just stand and stare at your smile."

Luna was momentarily speechless. Then she smiled. "Wow, that was really, really sweet. I think you are up to being adorable again."

Clinkz gave a short laugh, and then shook his head, his bones clacking. "God help me, but I think I'm falling in love with you."

Luna stood rooted to the spot, blinking in absolute surprise, while he turned and ventured on, as if he hadn't just declared to be falling in love with her.

She followed him, still a little thrown off by the statement.

Clinkz was in the woods to her left and she could see the soldiers ahead of her. They were near second tower of the enemy. She joined the fight while Clinkz drew circles around her, looking for enemy heroes. They had to be resurrected by now and Luna wanted to head back before they appeared. But they had a few seconds and she used the time to help their soldiers to destroy the tower. As the building fell she backed away, looking for the skeleton. But he was already at her side and together they retreated. No use in trying to go against five enemy heroes.

On their way back they met the other three. Since the tower on the middle road had fallen, that only left the top road. So they headed there. They went through the woods to kill the beasts there and left the shadows of the trees at the point where first tower of the enemy had been. Their soldiers were a little farther back and the Storm Spirit would help them while the others would wait a little further up the road to catch the next wave of soldiers.

Clinkz hadn't left the woods but was keeping an eye on their surroundings, so the enemy couldn't surprise them by appearing on their flank.

They got the next tower down without any difficulties and without seeing even a glimpse of an enemy hero. It made Luna a bit uneasy and she was getting nervous. They were planning something for sure and she didn't like it one bit. They wouldn't give up but come up with a strategy to go against them.

They pushed forward to get the next tower, the one at the entrance of the town, as well. Luna looked around, searching for a sign of danger. Her nervousness transferred onto her cat, which whipped with her tail and growled low in her throat. It felt like a trap.

And damn it, it was one.

As soon as they got near the tower, they didn't have any vision forward, because the town was on higher ground and everything on the platform was in shadows. But they could be seen from above.

They were gathered in front of the town, only Clinkz was standing a little to the side. But he was still too close to the walls of the town when the attack started.

The first thing Luna noticed was that the sniper was shooting at the skeleton. Somehow he saw him even though Clinkz was invisible and because he had a really long shooting range, he was able to hit him even outside of the town.

Just as she wanted to do something (she didn't know what, because she wouldn't be able to see the dwarf inside of the town, either) the faceless man jumped into their middle and before the Silencer had realized what was happening, the purple sphere froze them all in place. They were all four caught inside and unable to do anything. Clinkz had moved back and now approached them, aiming for the faceless man, who had started attacking the Silencer at high speed. It took only seconds for the faceless man to kill him. It happened so fast, the other heroes spilled out of the city only when the faceless man turned towards his second victim, Luna.

Clinkz started shooting as soon as he was near enough but then it was already too late for the Silencer, whose lifeless body still hung in the sphere. And though his burning arrows hit in incredibly fast succession, it wasn't enough before the others were on him.

The voodoo priest placed the shooting ward, which attacked the Storm Spirit. Just as the sphere vanished and Luna was finally able to move again, the bouncing stun hit her. She wanted to scream in frustration, because she could do nothing! The Storm Spirit, nearly dead, saw the futility of the fight and charged away. With nearly all his mana, since he hadn't used much of it, he was able to get far enough away to be safe. No one had attacked the Mogul Khan until then and now he joined the fight. Luna had no illusions about them being able to kill all five enemy heroes but she wanted to get at least one of them.

The knight, the archer woman and the shooter were still focused on Clinkz though it would only keep them occupied for another second because though he was invisible, he was shackled and they could see him. With his escape ability cancelled he had no way of getting away.

Luna had the desperate wish to save him but even if she was able to get to him fast enough she didn't have an ability to stun all of them. That meant one of them would get him regardless of what she would do.

The faceless man was still attacking her and his hits were damn painful. She cast her Lucent Beam on him, and then left him for the Mogul Khan to deal with. As she turned around the archer woman knocked an arrow from her bow that flew past the dragon, the knight had morphed into, and embedded itself in the fiery core of the Bone Fletcher. He crumpled into a pile of bones, his bow clattering onto the ground. For a second she only stared at the spot where Clinkz had stood, too shocked to move. It was the first time the skeleton had died in the war and the horror of it left Luna frozen into place.

Then she attacked. She cast her eclipse and stormed forward, right up to the archer woman, who had delivered the death blow. Her Lucent Beam ready again she used it to disable the shooter for a second while still going for the woman. It was no use though, because the dragon was able to stun her. It didn't interrupt her Eclipse, but the moon beams that hit the enemies weren't strong enough to kill them. She only hoped the Mogul Khan would use the time where she distracted them to get one or both of the others still somewhere behind her. And maybe still be able to get away. She would see it when they met in town again.

Luna was dead even before the stun duration faded.