~Axel’s POV~Noise.That was the only word big enough to hold what was happening inside my own skull, not thought, not memory, just noise, layered on top of noise, voices and screaming and something that might have been my own voice screaming back at all of it, none of it distinguishable from the rest. My father’s laughter. Kyran’s grief. The sound of bone breaking, over and over, a rhythm with no end to it. It came from everywhere at once, inside and outside both, until the two stopped being separate things entirely.I clapped my hands, paws, claws, whatever I was now over my ears, some animal instinct trying to block out a sound that wasn’t coming from outside me at all, and it did nothing.Then, underneath all of it, so faint I almost missed it entirely, something cut through.A voice. Not screaming. Not layered, not ancient, not wrong in any of the ways everything else in my head had gone wrong.Familiar.“Well, that doesn’t look like much fun.”I froze, some part of me strainin
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