ate ollowed jj[Phreya]

I surveyed him for a long moment. He stood in the shadows like a monolith, his mismatched gaze—one forest green, one luminescent silver—tracking my every breath. I didn't need the light; my vision mapped him perfectly. I could see the slight flare of his nostrils, the tension in his massive shoulders.

“Your three seconds are up,” I hissed. “And still, silence.”

He didn’t move. He looked lost in a reverie, staring at me as if he were seeing a ghost. I ...