AIYANA"Synx…" The name had barely left my lips.She smiled.As if she knew me.As if we were continuing an old conversation I had never heard begin.Her eyes danced from me to Icarus, as though studying him. Then, at last, they landed on the still body in my arms.Max.She tilted her head slightly, as if evaluating a painting. A faint sigh slipped from her lips before she asked, with an almost mocking calm:"Do you need help with that?"Icarus leapt to his feet, body tense, eyes like black blades. He placed himself between us, shielding me with his own body."Watch what you say," he growled, not bothering to hide the threat in his voice.But Synx only smiled, indifferent to the danger he represented."I said help, not threat," she replied, with a serenity that felt like poison in a perfume bottle. I wasn’t sure if I should trust her.She walked closer. Unhurried, unafraid. As though she ruled everything around her.She stopped before me, her eyes glimmering as she studied me up close
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