The Forsaken
Atlas huffs a breath through his nose, but it’s not amusement, it’s sharp and bitter, like old ash in the throat.
“Not usually,” he mutters. “Not unless I’m weak. Uncentered. Furious.”
He finally looks up at me then, and something in his eyes isn’t just his. There’s something ancient in them. Something not quite human flickers just beneath the surface, like the veil between them is thinner out here in the wild, where the rules don’t matter as much.
“Cole touched you,” he says again, quieter now, but no less pained. “And Sky… snapped. Not because he thought you were in danger. But because someone touched what he sees as his.”
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