Marked in the Middle
Lira said grimly.
They stayed the night in what had once been the town’s inn. The rooms were sparse but clean, though the windows reflected strange things, not their own faces, but older or younger versions.
Nora couldn’t sleep. The pendant glowed faintly beside her bedroll, pulsing in sync with her heartbeat. Outside, the town murmured, faint voices whispering names, songs, fragments of lost years.
She stepped outside into the night air.
The stars were wrong, too many, arranged in unfamiliar constellations. The moon was fractured, half-shadowed by a spiral of Rift light.
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