~ CassianI stirred awake with a groggy breath, feeling the morning light brush faintly against my eyelids.I groaned at it, because I had forgotten to completely shut the lights out with the curtain last night. My body ached slightly from sleeping in a weird angle, and my neck felt rickety like a rusted machine part—but it was nothing unusual.I could fix it by changing my position.I turned, ready to dig my face into the pillow and steal a few more minutes of quiet, but instead came face to face with Rylan.I jolted upright. “What the hell, Rylan? Why are you hovering over me like some creep?”He sat at the edge of the bed and folded his hands.He didn’t even flinch. His eyes were dark and unfocused, locked on me with this intensity that made my skin crawl.“We need to talk,” he said, his voice low, gravelly, not entirely his own. “About Lyon.”I blinked at him, still trying to process how the hell I’d woken up to a full-on war council. “You do know it’s barely even sunrise, right?
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