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The pain hit me three miles past the Thornevale border, folding me in half in the passenger seat of Silas’s truck with no warning at all.One second I was staring out the window at the dark tree line, numb, replaying Kieran’s voice on a loop I couldn’t switch off. The next, something seized behind my ribs so hard I heard myself make a sound I didn’t recognize, half gasp and half sob, and my hands flew to my sternum like I could hold whatever was happening in place.“Dessa.” Silas had the truck stopped and was out of his seat before I’d even registered the tires leaving the road. His hands hovered near my shoulders, not touching, like he wasn’t sure he was allowed. “Dessa, talk to me. What’s wrong?”I couldn’t answer. There wasn’t room in me for words. The thing tearing loose in my chest wasn’t the old wound reopening. I knew that pain by now, knew its shape, the ragged tear of a bond dying. This was the opposite. Something was being built, fast and violent, thread by thread, in the sa

DessaI couldn’t sleep. I hadn’t slept properly in three nights, not since the yard, not since the stranger at the tree line had looked at me like I was something worth remembering.Every time I closed my eyes I was back in the Great Hall with Kieran’s voice looping on some broken track I couldn’t switch off. Fatass. Weak. A joke. Then the gate, then the command that hadn’t touched me, all of it layered on top of each other until I couldn’t tell which memory I was standing inside anymore.I gave up around midnight. Pulled on my boots, shrugged into the first coat I found by the door, and let myself out into the cold before I could think better of it. Silas would have told me to stay. That was exactly why I didn’t wake him to ask.The trees swallowed the last of the porch light within a hundred yards. I told myself I only wanted air. I didn’t tell myself where my feet were really taking me until I heard it. Snarling, dozens of throats deep, the wet, ugly sound of bodies colliding in th