CHAPTER 155: THE HAUNTING OF NYRIELLENYRIELLE'S POV: SONG OF THE CHAPTER: “MY BODY IS A CAGE” by Arcade Fire~~~ The dream begins like a lullaby, slow and aching. Smoke curls through the air, but there is no fire, only the scent of ash and of endings. My wings beat against the sky, but I’m weightless, drifting through memory or something older. The clouds part, and beneath me is the valley of my kin. Once, it sang with laughter. Now it screams. I hover in horror as I watch the valley below; silver scales dulled by blood, wings snapped at their joints, tails twisted in death. My brothers. My sisters. My mother with her crest of pale gold. My father, his eyes frozen wide. All still. All dead.I land, or maybe I fall. “Myriad,” I whisper, naming one. Then another. “Valka. Soren. Ereth…” I drop to my knees, claws digging into scorched earth that pulses as though it remembers me. My reflection stares back in a shallow puddle, and I see what I always fear: I’m the only one
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