Roisin
I left the storeroom with my thoughts in disarray, my chest still aching from the storm Visaris had left in his wake. My lips burned with the ghost of his kiss, and every step I took away from him only seemed to make the memory stronger, not weaker. Meimei’s trembling plea, Enid’s desperate begging, Visaris’ merciless voice… every moment piled upon me, crushing me until I could barely breathe. I needed air. I needed silence. I needed space to think.
So I retreated to my chambers, clinging to the hope that solitude would bring me some clarity. But when the door closed behind me and the quiet wrapped itself around the room, it did not soothe me. It only amplified the chaos in my head. The silence pressed in like a suffocating pressure, leaving me alone with my racing thoughts and p
