[Lyra]

"I didn't kill anyone!" I whispered, my voice trembling as I looked around the tight, suffocating circle of the territory's elite. "I don't... I don't remember any of this! You're all insane! Dad, tell them!"

My mother, Lana, didn't look at my father. Her eyes were fixed on me, a deep, terrifying desperation flicking across her features. Without warning, she crossed the swept stone floor of the ruins, her hand snapping out to grip my temple.

"Let me see," my mother growled, her Luna ...