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woke up with the Bone Prince's eyes still burned into my brain. Silver like liquid mercury. Seeing right through me.
"You still look like you've seen a ghost," Gumi observed, lounging on my windowsill in a patch of morning sunlight. His nine tails twitched lazily as he studied me. "Or something worse than a ghost."
"I feel like I got hit by a truck," I mumbled, pushing myself up and running a hand through my hair. "That wasn't a normal dream."
"No," Gumi agreed, unusually serious. "It wasn't."
I glanced at the black rose petal still sitting on my nightstand, its edges rimmed with frost despite the summer heat pouring through my open window. Proof that whatever had happened last night wasn't just in my head.
"You really think it was him? The Bone Prince?" I asked, though I alrea
