Pregnant Iris threatens Alpha Kyle: give her the Moon Scepter, council votes, and heir status, or she aborts the Moonborn Heir. Only Lavinia hears the unborn Luno, who can leave one womb and choose another mother. She offers herself; Luno moves into her. Iris's womb is empty, the Blake plot is exposed, and Lavinia becomes Moonblessed. After Luno saves her at a perilous birth, the council entrusts her with the Scepter, and Kyle shields her as his own.