Evelina's POV
But I didn't move.
Neither did Caspian, though his hand settled on my shoulder before I could decide whether I wanted to step back, his fingers tightening slightly as the cracks continued through the exposed stone.
They stopped a hand's width from the edge.
For several seconds, I watched the place where they ended and waited for something else to happen. Nothing did. No new cracks appeared, the loose soil around the marker stopped shifting, and the forest seemed exactly as it had before I'd nearly disappeared into the ground. If I hadn't watched the stone split with my own eyes, I might have convinced myself the damage had always been there.
Caspian's hand was still on my shoulder.
"Can we leave now?" I asked, looking up at him.
His attention remained on the marker fo
