Se connecter~Amelia~
By dawn, the whole pack was filled with murmurs and whispers that made me feel excluded.
~Amelia~By dawn, the whole pack was filled with murmurs and whispers that made me feel excluded. My first clue came from the way two older women in the hall went quiet the second I stepped in, and my second clue came from the way one of the supply boys stopped himself mid-sentence and stared at the floor like he had been caught stealing. The third clue was worse, because Serena
~Amelia~Kaden went into training with the sort of energy that said his nerves had turned into a fist, and the whole field felt it before anybody even called the first sparring round. By the time he stepped into the ring, the war had clearly moved into his bones and started rattling around for an exit, and the only thing that came out was force. He blocked too hard, struck too fast, and pushed one of the warriors back so sharply that the poor guy almost lost his footing in the mud.
~Amelia~By the end of the day, the whole pack had that strained hush sitting over it, and I was moving through it with a suspect list in one hand, a headache in the other, and Lily’s nursery still on my mind even though I had already checked the barriers twice.Clara had pulled me aside earlier with another one of her serious faces, and this time she did not waste ten seconds building suspense.
~Amelia~I was barely halfway through catching my breath when I noticed Blake hanging back near the side yard like he had something serious on his chest and did not feel like waiting for the whole pack to wander off before saying it.Training had been tough all morning, and the field was still buzzing with the aftershock of sparring feet, shouted counts, and guards laughing too hard while pretending they were not tired. Caleb had taken the younger fighters back to the main line to run drills again, Kaden was over by the east ri
~Amelia~I had barely stepped into the main hall when Clara caught my sleeve and pulled me toward the side corridor with that serious face she got when the future had decided to be a menace.She did not waste time.She gave me a once over view, then said, “I checked the border again.”
~Amelia~By the time Lily finally stopped fighting her own little body and drifted into sleep, the whole nursery had gone from panic mode to that shaky, exhausted quiet that always comes after a scare. Eli had already checked her twice, Clara had gone back to her room after saying the fever had dropped enough to breathe easier, and Blake had finally left the nursery with the last of the calming brew instructions written down on a scrap of paper that I folded and shoved into my pocket like it was a life raft.Kaden stayed throug







