~Selene's POV~
The second visit comes two days later, at her invitation again, and this time Selene finds herself watching him with an attention that goes deeper than the ordinary, careful observation she has practiced for months.
She has felt the shift building for weeks without fully naming it, something in her perception sharpening since the move north, the way the Silverborn awareness Miriam first explained to her in Silvermere has continued to develop quietly in the background of her ordinary days, the heightened senses, the dreams that arrived in sequence rather than at random, the marks along her wrists growing slowly more visible under lamplight. She understands, sitting across from Caden at her own kitchen table while he talks through the latest details of the border situation,
