I shouldn’t have seen it.And yet I couldn’t unsee it.It was unbelievable. Unreal. And yet it was very much real.My lungs wouldn’t work properly until we were in the carriage. Then the air came in ragged gasps, too fast, too shallow. My chest heaved. My hands shook.I blinked once, only to find Iris staring at me, her face as blank as ever.“You would make a terrible werewolf. You have no gut. You have no liver. For all I know, you probably think you’re still in cozy little Evenmoor.”I leaned my back against the carriage seat. Lips pursed as the past few days played in my head like the nightmare that it was.“Forgive me,” I snapped, “for not preparing for a world that I never believed existed.”A beat of silence passed, and with it came a tension I wasn’t ready to battle with, so I remained put and let the silence become my companion.Had I gone too far? Said too much?Iris was protecting me and keeping me close. Teaching me skills that could save my life or some other man’s marita
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