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The ringing in my ear was a dull, somber tone. It matched the slow pulse of my heartbeat. The phone lay beside my head on speaker mode because my hands were to limp to grasp onto anything, even though I was trying to reach out to someone. But Nia’s phone rang and rang and then went to voice mail. Like the last twenty times I’d called her.
I pushed up from my prone position in my bed. There was silence in this part of the castle as everyone was down in the dining hall. Well, almost everyone.
I couldn’t hear them, but I could feel Morgan and Arthur arguing in the Great Hall. Well, Morgan was arguing. I felt the modulations of her emotions even though I couldn’t hear her words. Arthur’s punctuated silences and stillness were deafening, but he wasn’t unaffected emotionally. I’d expected
