POV: Mina
I woke up and made a decision.
No more running.
I'd been running since I arrived at this Academy. Running from the Trio's attention, from discovery, from my own power fighting through the seal. Running had kept me alive and kept my cover intact and gotten me to within hours of the ceremony.
But I was done with it.
Whatever happened tonight, whatever the ceremony revealed and whoever witnessed it and whatever the consequences were, I was done spending my last hours before everything changed hiding in archives and labs and basement corridors. Done staying three steps ahead of three wolves who'd spent four months trying to break me and hadn't managed it.
I got up. Rewrapped my binding for what I knew would be the last time, tighter than usual, knowing it wouldn't matter by to
