PAEDYN NOVA
I heard…
Something had shifted in the air, and I felt it in my bones.
Long before the guards started pacing faster through the corridors… before the whispers reached the walls of my recovery room… before the distant howls broke the stillness of the night… I felt it. Deep inside. In my marrow. Like a silent scream pressing against the walls of my chest.
I sat up slowly on the edge of the bed, my legs dangling off the side, my fingers digging into the woven blanket Cardan’s healer had thrown over me. I couldn’t rest. I hadn’t rested. Not really. I just pretended to, long enough to stop them from fussing.
Something was coming.
Or someone.
I stared at the flickering oil lamp near the doorway, the golden light dancing across the rough stone. The warmth didn’t touch me. It had
