Kin's POV

I couldn't sleep.

The bed was too soft and the room was too quiet and every time I closed my eyes the whispers started. They weren't loud enough to understand but they were there all the same and they crawled under my skin like insects burrowing deep.

So I got up.

The castle corridors were empty at this hour and my footsteps echoed off the stone walls as I walked without any real destination in mind. The torches flickered as I passed and cast long shadows that seemed to reach for ...