He must have made himself believe it. After all, King Richard used to say his dear wife’s memory lived in that perfect circle. But now as Sapiens held the stranger’s pendant, with no connection to her or her necklace whatsoever, he felt similar safety and childish peace wash over him once more. He felt home. He felt he wasn’t alone anymore. It was a mixture of faint but unmistakable feelings, none of them bad.
It was everglow.
The woman stirred without opening her eyes, her eyebrows furrowing. Startled by the movement, Sapiens put the pendant back onto her person. Instantly, she stopped moving and eased back into a more peaceful sleep. He, on the other hand, was left alone with all the anguish surrounding his father’s death.
He wondered if that woman had somehow taken his father’s neckl
