☽ Lucan ☾
Last night, I had ignored her, and the secret felt like a stone in my stomach. It felt like it was cutting me from the inside. Nyra didn’t push, but I knew she was angry with me. She knew I was hiding something from her, and I had no idea what to tell her. I kept hearing Vespera’s voice in my head. That I wasn’t her brother.
“Still silent?” Nyra questioned as she came out of her bedroom. The look on her face was clear. She wasn’t just angry, she was disappointed. And possibly scared. “What. Did. They. Take?” she asked. Nyra folded her arms across her chest as she stared at me. Instead of answering her with the truth, I shrugged.
“Let’s go for a walk,”
“A walk?” she repeated, confused.
“Look, I need some privacy, and the forest is the only place I can talk without us being
