Julianna POVFour days.That was how long Lyra and Scott had been gone, and by the fourth morning, fear had stopped being loud. It settled instead—heavy, dull, and purple, like a bruise no one wanted to press.The academy felt wrong without them.People still trained. Bells still rang. But every corridor carried the same unspoken question: What if they don’t come back? No one said it out loud. Saying it felt like inviting it to be true.Lily hadn’t slept.I knew because she was still in the lower hall when the sun rose, chalk smudges on her hands, eyes rimmed red, strands of her hair slipping free from the tight braid she always wore when working magic. The floor beneath her was a web of glowing circles—layered, complex, carved so deeply into the stone that the runes pulsed even when she stepped away.“This one should work,” Lily said hoarsely, straightening. Her voice echoed through the hall, too loud in the quiet.Cameron leaned against a pillar, arms folded. “You said that about th
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