Chapter 146 If They Knew
- [KARA/RUELLE]
- The sky outside is bruised with purple and gold while I’m crouched near the cooking fire, stirring stew thick with root vegetables and dried fish with the wooden spoon Alec whittled for me last week. The flames warm my hands, and the scent clings to my clothes. It’s the kind of quiet I’ve come to crave. The kind that doesn’t demand anything from me.
- The door creaks open behind me.