☉FENRIR I slammed my fist into the wall, the impact causing tiny cracks to spider through it. I had not been able to control myself. Ever since that day in the woods that I had lost myself, I had loathed coming into contact with that woman. But everywhere I go, there she presents herself. I had only come to the inn to get away, to hear something different from what the knaves and insolent curs of the court fed me. And she had been there. I had known that Danika constantly snuck out—it was impossible to ignore her scurrying about under that filthy cloak she hoped hid her from the others, but I knew. From my window, I could see her leave, every time she left. Still, I had not expected that I would ever run into her at that inn. She had an incorrigible aptitude for being everywhere that I

