POV: Aphrodite
Fate did not count on love.
The twins make their attempt while the Moon Goddess's arrival is still finding its positions relative to our own.
Not separately — together, the specific twin coordination that has been developing since before the ruins finding its full expression in the most desperate application it's been put to. Draco challenges the Moon Goddess directly in the specific form of an Alpha-born wolf at full expression refusing the submission that the Moon Goddess's proximity produces in every wolf with a lunar connection.
Not because he can win. Because the challenging disrupts the Moon Goddess's command architecture in the specific way of something large encountering unexpected resistance — briefly, partially, the specific disruption of a mechanism encountering the specific thing the mechanism wasn't built for, which is a wolf refusing to run the submission calculation at all.
Lucen is at the ley-line intersection while Draco challenges.
