Lyra
While Liam and the puppet argued, I was working in silence.
Halfway through the chaos I remembered the blade I always carried with me. It had been in my pocket, and I’d even used it earlier in the car. How did I forget it?
I managed to get it from my pocket and began cutting at the ropes.
No one, not even Evelyn had noticed because they were too consumed by the back and forth between Liam and the puppet.
A back and forth I aided when I noticed the puppet got scared after Liam stabbed himself. I was glad for that short moment and as I watched Liam, my chest gutting with his words and confession, I continued to cut at the ropes binding my wrists.
But then the puppet walked back to me, pressed the blade to my throat and said to Liam, “if you kill yourself, I’ll kill her.”
Then
