Chapter 78 The Space Between The Pulse

• Rayven P.O.V.
• The first time I felt it, I didn’t call it wrong. I called it familiar. That was my first mistake.
• It didn’t start at the Gate or in the forest. It began with the ones we brought back—the injured, the ones pulled too close to the edge and dragged back before the corruption could fully take them. At first, I thought it was resistance, something in them fighting to hold together while I worked. That wasn’t new. But the more I paid attention, the more it didn’t seem like resistance at all.