Ayla's POV
Elena stirred in the chair beside my bed. "You okay? You were restless all night."
I grabbed my whiteboard: "Kira contacted me. Through a dream."
"What? How?"
"Twin bond," I wrote, then explained everything. The cottage burning. Our mother dead. The two little girls being separated. The binding mark on Kira's collarbone that forced her to obey The Covenant.
"And you believe her?" Elena asked carefully.
"I don't know," I wrote. "But she wants to meet tonight. Old chapel behind east woods. Says she has proof."
"It's a trap," Sienna said from the floor, waking up.
Before I could respond, I heard a sharp knock on my door. "Ayla Rashborne! Open immediately!"
My heart stopped. Two Council guards stood in the hallway, faces grim. "You are required before the Academy Council. N
