THE AUREUM TRIAL: BLOOD OATH
I could feel their weight, heavy and calculating, as though he could see through the grain of wood, through the layers of night, and find me there, curled and invisible.
A moment hung suspended—fragile, precarious. The silence roared louder than any cry. Then, a twitch of fabric, a breath drawn sharp, and the presence lingered—so close, so unbearably close that the space itself seemed to hold its breath.
Before the inevitable could shatter the fragile balance, a voice— Ingrid voice clear, defiant—cut through the tension like lightning.
“Oh, for gods’ sake, don’t touch me! Do you know how much this coat costs?”
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