SKEET POV - CHAPTER 66
Time was not something I felt anymore.
Time was something I stood inside.
The mountains of the Canis Lupus territory stretched endlessly around us, quiet beneath the evening sky, but the world felt layered to me now. Moments overlapped like pages of a book pressed together too tightly.
Past.
Present.
Possibility.
Most people experienced time as a straight road.
For me, it was a forest.
And tonight I was about to walk into it.
Avah stood beside me at the edge of the clearing, arms folded as she watched the sky darken. The wind brushed through her dark hair, but she did not seem cold.
She rarely did.
“You’re thinking too loudly again,” she said calmly.
I smiled faintly.
“Thinking loudly?”
“You make the air bend when you start looking at time.”
“That sou
