COLD STEEL, BLEEDING HEARTS
On her laptop, Chapter 53 flickered across the screen.
“Who is she?” Julian whispered, his voice shaking.
The suited man collapsed. “She’s the One Who Dreams. She’s about to wake up.”
Maya stared at the screen, saw her own name, Julian’s name. She saw the woman’s hand—warm, real.
The woman’s eyelids twitched. She started to wake.
Maya felt a pull, like gravity yanking at her soul. London, the ink, everything, sucked into the computer.
“Maya, what do we do?” Julian cried, flickering like a dying light.