Morwenna’s POVFire licked through the sky like veins tearing open the night. My lungs felt heavy, ash sticking to the roof of my mouth as if the world wanted me gagged before I could scream his name. Leofric.I had felt him stir, his heart wrenching back into rhythm against mine, but what rose in him wasn’t the man I remembered. His hand had clutched my arm with too much strength, too much hunger, like his bones had been rebuilt with iron and thirst. His eyes—God, his eyes were not his. Silver light burned where storm-gray used to be, and when he whispered my name, it didn’t sound like him at all. It was like three voices crawling over each other, some god’s echo hiding in the cracks of him.Now, the battlefield burned, soldiers scattering as the Blood Moon swelled larger above us, and I couldn’t tell if I wanted to run from him or crawl closer.“Morwenna,” he rasped again, and the ground split. Not from his feet—no, from his pulse. Each beat cracked stone, each breath warped the air
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