✦Dolly✦
Cybil arrived before anyone called her. Of course, she did. That was apparently her favorite way to be the most annoying person in any room. We were still at the packhouse. Riven had been moved to a guarded room, which was nicer than a cell and more generous than he deserved. Elias had complained loudly about that. I had said nothing. I had nothing left. The room still carried the weight of Riven’s confession.
The ring weakens.
The blade ends.
Those words would not stop echoing in my mind. But then the lights dimmed, and Blaise looked up.
“Oh, now she arrives," shadows curled in the center of the room, folding inward until Cybil stepped out of them like she was arriving at a dinner party and not into a house full of angry supernaturals.
“My timing is excellent,” she said wit
