ena

th a quietness alien to Silas - his footfalls light, alm

ed as he sat on t

he whi

oid of the harsh arroganc

d over my eyes. He slowly untied the ribbon, and the bl

ntirely steady. He reached out, his th

ire being. A deep, resonant thrumming in my bones recognized its counterpart. My soul trem

two halves of a single soul. How could this manufactured thing, this sou

d back as if scalded. H

with sorrow. "If only I possessed a wolf. I would splinter the very

with an abruptness that spoke of desperate self-control, he stood and re

d not merely betrayed me; he had defiled me. He had broken the most profound laws of the Goddess. He had forsake

e lay down at the far edge of the bed, a rigid and unwi

engine of calculation. But threaded thro

uch a vict

anted. The morning was quiet, my mind my own. A note lay on the b

Mind-Link. Elara. Access the secret mat

nd it. Lyra is just over a month wi

y piece click

iate the Reje

o

as betra

of a clean schism. I am not going to r

destruction is alrea