Chapter 96 Touch Her, And She Dies

• [KNOX]
• I wake with the distinct sense that something is missing. It takes me a moment to place it, because nothing around me has changed. My chamber is the same, the light filtering in through the same wide window, illuminating the tapestries and reaching corners—even the one where I’ve tucked Xena’s ceremonial cloak. And yet something feels… incomplete.
• Perhaps it’s because I haven’t rested enough. Sleep evaded me last night. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw her standing in front of me, heard her voice asking the same question over and over again.