Blood Heir
“Horizontal.”
He frowned faintly.
“It felt level,” I clarified. “As if we were standing on the same ground.”
The elder went very still.
“And what did it want?”
“Nothing.”
“That is not possible.”
“I don’t think it wants,” I whispered. “I think it remembers.”
Cian studied me for a long moment. Then, unexpectedly, he bowed his head slightly.
“There are records,” he said quietly, “that predate the current doctrine. Fragments. Stories of cycles before the established order.”