Luna's POV
The days following the game blur together in a strange mixture of relief and lingering adrenaline. Ashton's lawyers get involved almost immediately, filing the groundwork for a defamation suit against Raoul within days, actual malice, fabricated evidence, provable financial and reputational harm, all laid out in careful, methodical detail by a legal team clearly relishing the strength of the case. Ashton mentions it to me almost offhandedly one evening, exhausted but satisfied, like ticking off one more item on a very long list of consequences finally catching up to the man responsible.
The league moves quickly too, once the footage goes properly viral. Raoul's suspension becomes permanent within forty-eight hours, the Flyers organisation issuing a carefully worded statement d
