Ryan
I strode away from the dank cell. The guard's desperate pleas fading behind me as I ascended the stairs. Still, his words lingered in my mind.
"I'll let you go after midnight," I had promised him. But even as I spoke, a flicker of disgust curled in my gut. Disgust at the way he had tried to bargain with Lyra's secrets as if they were his to trade.
Yes. He'd 'go' all right. I'd release him into the forest and there, he would find his ending.
And what he knew of Lyra would die right along with him.
And in no form or fashion would I lose any sleep over it.
I would over Lyra's… omission, though. Lots of it.
Her lie wasn't just about the past. It was a ticking time bomb under our future. Every shared dream, every thought of a life together... crumbled into ash because she had no
