Selene’s POV
Something had shifted in Ravaryn again.
It wasn’t the kind of change that came with noise or orders — no clang of swords, no shouted decree. It was quieter, like a breath held too long.
The corridors were still busy with servants and scribes, yet everyone moved faster, spoke softer. I could feel it in the way their eyes darted toward me and away again — as if I carried a secret I didn’t yet know I had.
I had learned to live with whispers. But these were different.
This time, even the walls seemed to be listening.
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Kael had grown distant these past two days. Not cold — never that — but… inward. His attention frayed in odd moments, as though something tugged at the edge of his thoughts.
When I asked what troubled him, he only said, “Nothing you need to bear.”
Which w
