BLOODBOUND: THE LAST MATE
NYRA
She told Rafael about Nyra that morning — she went to his study before breakfast and knocked and told him everything about the courtyard, about the woman who appeared and disappeared, about what had been said. He listened with the particular quality of attention he brought to important things — completely, without rushing to respond, giving her account the full consideration it required. When she finished, he was quiet for a long moment. "Nyra," he said. The name had a quality in his voice: not surprise, but the weight of familiarity — a name encountered many times in reading and now arrived in the room. "You know who she is," Lena said. "Of her," he said carefully. "In the oldest texts
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