The Binding
I can feel their eyes on my hand where the glyph sits under my skin like a brand.
“Hi,” I whisper.
It’s stupid, but it makes a few of them blink.
“I know most of you already think this is my fault, or my brothers.” I continue, voice steadying as I go.
“And you wouldn’t be entirely wrong.”
Jana’s breath catches softly behind me.
Eirik doesn’t interrupt.
“Since I got here,” I say, “we’ve had a prophecy reactivate, a third flame trying to rip her way out of a mountain, the wards around us have fractured, the door beneath that mountain is waking up, and one of your own gets pulled halfway through it.”
Bab Populer