**The day we first arrived here poisoned with wolfsbane**, I woke up from the dream, my heart pounding so hard it felt like it might break through my chest. My mind was still tangled in the images of that nightmare, vivid and raw, as if I’d lived it. I stumbled out of bed, my legs shaky, and somehow, for reasons I couldn’t explain, the nurse led me straight to you. Her face was kind but unreadable, and she didn’t say much, just guided me through the halls until I found you, Silvia said.
I looked at her now, the pieces clicking into place, my mind clearing like fog lifting after a long night. I’d always wondered how Silvia had found her way to me so quickly that day, how she’d known exactly where to go in this unfamiliar place. I hadn’t asked her then—my head was too clouded, still reeling
