Selene's POV
I knew something was wrong the moment I left the training hall.
Not in a way I could see. No footsteps, no presence I could turn and face. It stayed closer than that, quiet and constant, sitting under my skin like it had settled there.
I felt it in the way I moved, in how my body stayed just a little more alert than before. I noticed things earlier now. Not clearly, not enough to act on, but to know something was there before it fully happened.
It didn't make things easier.
Because now I could feel every moment where I still missed it.
And there were too many of those.
"Eat."
The voice stopped my thoughts.
I looked up. Rowan stood near the table, placing a tray down without looking directly at me. He never really did, not the way the others did. No
