"He?" Nyxara bursts into laughter. "He can’t reach you here." She takes a step closer, grabs my chin, and digs her nails into my skin. "If you don’t want to go back to him, we could give you a home. You don’t have to return."
"You don’t know what you’re saying. You’re delusional if you think he can’t enter here."
Nyxara doubles over with laughter, holding her belly as her whole body shakes.
"That’s what you want to believe, girl." Her forked tongue flicks between her lips. "Could it be... you can’t resist being near him? Even the fiercest hearts seem to yield before eternal, unchanging beauty."
"That’s not it. You don’t understand. Cassian is capable of burning to the ground the very land you stand on."
"I know full well the gifts of our dear Cassian." She raises an eyebrow. "Tell me—
