As soon as Elias laid down he pulled me down beside him and pulled me close to his chest.
It was almost like he was afraid that I was going to disappear during the night or something. He had a tight grip on me, but I wasn’t complaining.
I never felt safer than when I was in Elias’ arms in bed.
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The forest lay like a wound beneath the sky — the trees standing proud and green, unaware of the ruin that would come. I was looking at it as if remembering a life I hadn’t yet lived, when Morgana’s shadow fell over me. She was close enough that I could smell smoke and something darker beneath it: iron and old blood.
I turned. Where nothing had been, a dark castle now rose — towers like black teeth, banners I didn’t know. It wasn’t Arthur’s. It didn’t belong to anyone I knew.
Morg
