The Seventh Life Of The Soulbound Villainess
His crimson gaze held mine across fifteen meters of cold air and frozen road and the entire distance between a servant girl on a fence post and the future ruler of a continent, and then —
The world shifted.
Not visibly. Not in any way the miller's son beside me would have noticed, or the merchant's wife, or any of the hundreds of assembled villagers holding their breath and watching the procession pass. But to me, something tore open quietly in the center of my chest, and through the tear came a vision so brief and so strange that I was not sure, later, whether it had truly happened:
Golden threads.
Hair-thin. Fragile as frost on a windowpane. Running from the center of my sternum across the