Keira's Pov

With the most resounding plop of my life, I splashed into the coldest water of my life.

My bones shrunk immediately as the ice ate deep into my very core, filling me with an intensity I couldn't ignore.

My lips parted, wrenching out a wrangled cry as everything in me went numb, and I was left to sink. “Help!” I screamed, but the maid simply watched me.

Terror spread around my chest rapidly like a forest on fire, burning and raging, but I could not feel ...