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Luna Lovegood wasn’t sure how long she had been locked in this dungeon. How long had it been since they killed her protector and captured her? Why had they captured her only to keep her down here?
Contrary to what most people thought, Luna was not crazy, she just saw what happened around her. She wasn’t barmy, or loony, she just understood too many things, seeing too many timelines at the same time. Luna was a seer, cursed with the knowledge of her choices, and like most seers tasked with ensuring the time line stays on the main path. That meant that sometimes she had to do things that seemed a bit weird, say things that didn’t make any sense to other people, because that was what was needed.
Like all seers Luna couldn’t see things directly connected to her, since that was deemed by Fate as too high a temptation. Of course, Fates interpretation of what is directly connected to her seems to be very strict, even if slightly illogical. Luna had been 13 when she figured out that anytime a path turned dark, the choice directly affected her or one of her likely future mates. This means that Luna had known something would happen the night she was taken, but not that she would be captured, nor that her guardian would be killed. It also means that she knows that one of her heart is likely upstairs, often in the room two stairs up and to the left. Moreover, she knows that her heart is probably connected to the suppressed uninherited dragel keeping her alive by sneaking her appropriate food. Every path she can see where she tries to escape always leads to her capture, and after she is brought upstairs the path blacks out. If she imagines sneaking upstairs not intending to escape, that one particular room always leads to a black out. If she imagines telling any of the guards of the extra food being brought to her, it also blacks out instantly.
The black out could be the woman hurting or killing Luna immediately as a retaliation to her revealing the food delivery, but that didn’t seem to fit the woman’s aura. She could of course be Lunas future mate, however, even if women are beautiful, Luna isn’t attracted to them, and that seems like a crucial part of a relationship. So more likely, the woman is just very closely connected to her future mate and Fate deemed that to be enough. Which would be a first, she has never encountered a person whose fate was so closely connected to her or her mate that they themselves become an impenetrable void in her sight. That doesn’t even happen for Lunas dear and treasured friends, because somehow Fate is only worried about her decision making when it comes to her direct mates. Which was silly, because love isn’t only romantic, love comes in many forms, and Luna has very strong protective instincts, instincts that extend to her friends and family as well.
To be fair, Fate didn’t explicitly tell Luna that she was supposed to protect the time line, that was just something Luna had guessed due to her visions mainly coming unprovoked when there are at least two branching paths which have very different end points, paths that Luna can affect by her choice. The first usually leading to the world being better or at least roughly the same, and the others tend to involve catastrophic events or mass death. So, one could argue that Luna wasn’t breaking the rules by trying to change Fate, no one had after all told her the rules, and currently the main path leads to both of her very dear friends dying.
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From an outside perspective, it would appear that Luna Lovegood was the perfect prisoner. She had remained calm, spent most of her time lying on her too hard cot in the corner, possibly sleeping, possibly daydreaming. She said some weird things to the guards sometimes, but overall, she was such an unassuming prisoner they almost forgot she was there. In truth however, Luna had spent the last month trying to find a way to change Fate without destroying the world. Over and over again she thought of something she could do, imagined doing it, convinced herself that was what she would do in that particular moment, strongly enough that she managed to create a new branch she could see, a new branch she could evaluate. - What happened to the world? - Does her friends survive the night? - Do they survive the year?
When she finally does it, finds a branch where she thinks they live, people seem decently happy, the world seems possibly okay, at least as far as she has time to look; All Luna can do is hope that Fate shares her perspective, that they also think that the branch is the correct one, or at the very least restricts their punishment to Luna alone. Because the path won’t be easy, but they are worth it, and she found it just in time. They are arriving.