Chapter 6: Unspoken Pull
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Lyra should have left.
Every instinct she had told her to.
This place was unfamiliar.
This man—this creature—was unknown.
And yet—
She didn’t move.
Instead, she found herself asking—
“Why didn’t you leave me there?”
Kael tilted his head slightly.
“Because you were alive.”
“That’s not a reason.”
“It is to me.”
Lyra crossed her arms slightly, studying him.
“You help everyone who falls out of the sky?”
“No.”
That answer came too quickly.
Too easily.
“Just you.”
Her breath caught—just slightly.
Not enough to show.
But enough to feel.
“That doesn’t make sense,” she said.
Kael stepped closer.
Not invading.
But not distant anymore.
“Neither do you.”
That wasn’t an insult.
It didn’t feel like one.
It felt like something else.
Something… observed.
Something seen.
Lyra swallowed.
Harder than she expected.
Because no one had ever looked at her like that before.
Not with fear.
Not with caution.
Not with distance.
But with—
Curiosity.
Interest.
Something that made her chest tighten in a way she didn’t understand.
“You keep saying things like that,” she said quietly.
“Because they are true.”
Her gaze dropped briefly to his chest.
Then back to his eyes.
“You don’t even know me.”
“No.”
Another step closer.
“But I want to.”
That—
That was new.
Dangerous.
And Lyra felt it immediately.
The shift.
The pull.
The something between them that hadn’t been there before—
Or maybe had been…
And was just now being acknowledged.
“You shouldn’t,” she said softly.
Kael’s voice lowered.
“Why?”
Lyra hesitated.
Because she didn’t have an answer that didn’t feel like fear.
And she wasn’t afraid.
Was she?
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