I AM THE ONLY PERSON THE VILLAIN CANNOT KILL
That was when she saw the woman from the square, the one who had collapsed and died the day before, sitting calmly at a table near the window, sipping tea and speaking with the same young boy who had screamed over her body.
Elara froze in the doorway, her heart slamming against her ribs.
"That's impossible," she whispered. "I watched her die yesterday."
Kael appeared beside her, having followed her down from their room, and his face showed no surprise at all, only a grim, resigned understanding. "No one else remembers it," he said quietly. "To everyone else in this village, that woman never died at all. She woke this morning as she always does, with no memory of collapsing in the square, no