Chapter 59 Control It

• Lyra’s POV
• By morning, my body hummed with sounds that weren’t mine. I woke to footsteps echoing above me, though the floor should have muffled them. I tasted bitterness in the air from spilled ink. Every sense felt raw, stretched too thin. I wanted to hide it. But hiding felt impossible when even silence seemed too loud.
• No one was in the room when I woke up. I washed my face and headed out into the hallway. Freya caught me outside the corridor leading to Lady Seraphina’s chambers. Her face was calm, but her voice dropped to a whisper.