ELYRA.
The day of the event arrived faster than I expected.
I leaned closer to the mirror and lightly padded my cheeks, studying my reflection carefully.
Since the day Radiel had come to the studio, something about him had changed. I noticed it slowly over the next few days. At first, I tried to ignore it, thinking maybe I was imagining things. But he had definitely become… more normal.
I paused and frowned at my own reflection.
“That’s not the right word,” I muttered to myself.
It wasn’t like he had been abnormal before. Radiel had always been confident, sharp-tongued, and annoyingly calm. The real problem was that he had this bullying streak in him. He seemed to enjoy challenging me. Sometimes it felt like he woke up in the morning thinking of new ways to annoy me.
But lately, tha
