Aurelia POV
"Did you see that?" I asked, my voice barely more than a breath. "His eyes. Did anyone else see that?"
Nobody answered right away. Freya glanced at Tessa, who just shrugged, clearly having missed whatever I witnessed in the half-second it lasted.
"See what?" Freya asked.
"His eyes," I said again. "They went silver. Just for a second."
"Babies' eyes do all kinds of strange things right after birth," Freya said gently, but something in her tone suggested she was trying to reassure herself as much as me. "Trick of the candlelight, probably."
I looked down at Lucian, his eyes closed again now, his small face relaxed in exhausted sleep against my chest. Maybe she was right. Maybe I'd simply imagined it, my mind playing tricks after hours of pain and terror and blood loss.
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