~ ELIJAH ~ "Someone's outside," Corin said, his voice rough with disuse. I froze, hands still buried in the fresh bandage wrapped around Gideon's side. It was the first full sentence I'd heard him speak since Lyra pulled him out of that basin. "Say that again," I said, disbelief sharpening every word. Corin's eyes had shifted from their fixed middle distance to something closer to focus, still glassy, still distant, but tracking now. Tracking the window. "Someone's outside," he repeated, urgency threading thin beneath the roughness. "Watching." Gideon's eyes cracked open, alarm cutting through the haze of blood loss. "How many," he rasped. "I don't know how he'd know that," I said, already crossing to the window myself, pulse hammering hard against my ribs. The clearing outside sat dark and empty as far as I could tell, moonlight thin through the cloud cover, nothing moving among the trees. "Nothing there," I said, though doubt was already crawling up my spine. "There," Cor
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