The courtyard was empty. Not because the city slept—it never truly slept but because the world was watching, and I could feel it. Every heartbeat, every breath of Eron’s, every flicker of energy inside me had threads reaching out into the heavens, twisting, probing, and measuring.
The Watch is divine, relentless, and omnipresent. And today… I would lie, not a small lie. A deliberate, conscious falsehood aimed at the eyes that thought they could see everything.
I inhaled, feeling the ember stir beneath my chest. My demonic core remained sealed—but alive, aware, like a beast pacing inside a cage. The seal had never responded to lies. Not fully. Not deliberately, but it had limits. Today, I will test them.
“Eron,” I said quietly, keeping my tone casual, “do you feel anything?”
He looked a
