“He forced you to make that vow that night,” I concluded from the last scene I had witnessed before everything turned back to pitch-blackness, returning us to the void.
It explained why Brenna promised her descendants to Cassius. She had no choice. She needed to protect her kids. Otherwise, he would have killed them all.
“Such a vow shouldn’t be binding. It wasn’t willing!” I yelled into the dark, hoping Brenna could hear me even though she hadn’t shown herself yet.
Brenna had hindered me from seeing the rest of her memory, which wasn’t something that surprised me. Cassius had done the same, too, when we dream-walked together. Frankly, no one would be okay with someone else poking around in their head.
“I broke the first vow I made to him. It was only fair I repaid with another.” Bren
