Cassian’s POV
Five days later, we were back in school but nothing about it felt normal.
The halls, the stares, the suffocating silence that wrapped itself around the air like a noose was not normal anymore. Raven still wouldn’t speak to us, she wouldn't spare a word, a glare or even a scoff and I would’ve taken a thousand of her insults over the f*****g emptiness she left behind instead.
She healed us with her blood and pain. She gave us the one thing we’d been craving our whole cursed existence—relief. Freedom..and what did we give her in return?
We tried to make up for it—God, we f*****g tried. We changed her accessories to enchanted and flashy favourite colours, gave her the best meals straight from the royal kitchen, put up a silent but deadly warning to anyone who so much as looke
