Selene POV
I hear the knock but I don't move from the window.
The room they put me in is on the east side of the palace, high enough that the forest looks like a dark carpet below. I've been staring at it for an hour, maybe more. Watching the tree line and not thinking about Rex's face in the corridor. Not thinking about the robes hitting his chest. Not thinking about any of it.
"Come in," I say, because ignoring it won't make whoever it is leave.
The door opens.
Wendsor closes it behind her.
Of course.
She looks different without an audience. The wounded fragility from the corridor is gone — not dropped exactly, more like folded up and put away for later. What's underneath is quieter. More careful. She stands near the door with her hands clasped in front of her and her green eyes m
