What is the mood in this?

serious

Explanation:

it sounds formal and has no expression; it is serious

the mood is dark almost horrorish. The author uses phrases like, "the room is empty, but sunlight pouring through two high windows in the back wall" and "The room is solemn, even forbidding" to help you create an image of what the setting is.

Explanation:

- "is not only a luminous passive watcher in the night sky, but it is a powerful force.

it does symbolizes love,   lust   and dreaming and is seen as a power symbolic force that determines and affects human behaviors and reactions.

in the context of the question it does remain you that he events are only taking place at night and the reader of the passage of time."