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His grin. The way he had looked down at me like he found the entire situation entertaining. After what felt like hours of tossing and turning, I groaned softly and sat up again. “Okay,” I muttered. “Enough.” Meditation. That would help. I shifted to the floor beside the bed and sat cross-legged. Slow breath in. Slow breath out. Focus. The steady rhythm of my breathing slowly pushed the chaos of the day to the edges of my mind. Atlas tried to sneak back into my thoughts more than once.

I had been asking it in the hours afterward, in the call to Victoria, in the December evenings when Mia was asleep and the apartment was quiet and the subject sat in the part of my mind where things lived that required more than processing, that required readiness. I was not certain I was ready. I opened the file. Marcus had written a single paragraph. Not a formal report, not the dense technical documentation of an evidence chain or a corporate structure. A paragraph. The kind you wrote when you understood that the thing being communicated was not a business matter and should not be formatted as one.

Nerrian admitted shaking his head. When I showed up today, he had given me a book and was translating the words in my head again. At times it had been disconcerting, but it worked incredibly well. Even before my mind wandered off, I still learned a lot. I flushed again in embarrassment. I am sorry my mind is- "Use your words," he told me. I furrowed my eyebrows as I struggled to think of the words. "Relax your mind, Lady Mara. Let the words come to you," Nerrian instructed.

“It is both a blessing and a curse when you are about to glimpse into something that is unknown or untold.” “Why do you think so?” I asked. “Well, what you find out could either break you or make you. It all depends on how you accept this new knowledge.” “You seem to be focusing your gaze on that particular book on the altar,” I said as I followed his gaze. It was a large dark brown book and it was placed on an alter that upon closer inspection was made of bones. It was intricately designed with marks of unknown origin etched on it. “Yes, because I can feel a type of pulse coming from it. That is no ordinary book.” Marcus replied and walked closer to the book.

His sleep was deeper than it had been in years. And when morning came, he did not wake with a plan. He woke with a choice. To live without constant readiness. To let calm exist without suspicion. To carry the past without being shaped by it. That choice did not feel dramatic. It felt final. Marcus had chosen peace. Not as retreat. As arrival. And in that arrival, something settled fully. Not loneliness. Not longing. Just space. Enough to breathe. Enough to stay. Enough to begin again without armor. Quietly.

Micah had sent Atlas off with a handful of warriors to connect with his own element, directing them towards the nearest body of water. The first two days were filled with meditation. Micah insisted I needed to connect to the element before I began drawing on it for power. It was during this meditation that I realized how utterly impatient and rather finicky I was. My mind absolutely refused to still, and intrusive thoughts rushed through my mind. Wave after tumultuous wave, thoughts battered me senseless. “I can practically hear your thoughts.” Micah chuckled from just a few feet away. His laughter was as rich as the forest around us, and I could hear the wildlife awaken at his call. The sol

I muttered, hoping he didn’t notice how shaky my voice was. “Lie down,” Marcus said, his tone firm, leaving no room for hesitation. “We’re starting with stretches.” I lowered myself onto the mat, lying on my back. My chest rose and fell too fast, nerves and heat mixing together. Marcus crouched beside me, one large hand hovering over my knee. “Relax,” he said, his voice dropping lower, almost a command. “Let me guide you.”. I nodded quickly, biting my lip, relax? How the heck am I supposed to relax?

The title: *Meditations* by Marcus Aurelius. I didn’t know exactly who that was, but the cover had a Greek statue. Killian looked calm, composed—serene. Like even if a storm tore through Knight Manor, he’d stay unbothered. There was something magnetic about that. His presence felt foreign and familiar at once. Oddly comforting.

“Magnus…” “It is in the annals, my king. We don’t expect Gamma Eric to understand our traditions as he… well, we all know what he was before you turned him.” Elder Marcus fetched a hefty book from the shelf behind me and banged it onto the table in front of me. He opened it to a specific page and tapped his gnarled finger on a paragraph. “Read it, if you please.”

Marcus exhaled sharply and stood, pacing like a predator caged with his own thoughts. "I wanted to tell you. I should’ve..." he ran a hand through his damp hair. "But everything has changed." Raven rose from the bed slowly, stepping toward him. "Tell me now." Their eyes locked. The tension between them wasn’t just emotional—it was combustible. Grief, secrets, fear, and desire—all twisted into a dangerous, hungry thing. Marcus’s jaw ticked. "That book... it’s not just legend. I’ve seen what it does. I’ve seen what it takes from people. My father’s soul was only the beginning."