Chapter 86 The Cost Of Holding

• Rayven P.O.V.
• The shift started before anyone said it out loud.
• I felt it when we came back from the forest, not as a direct pull like Amelia described, but as something quieter and more unsettling. It moved through the space around us instead of toward us, threading into the ground, the air, the edges of everything it could reach. That kind of spread isn’t uncontrolled. It’s deliberate, and that’s what makes it dangerous.