~ LYRA ~

When I heard Maura exclaim, "Oh dear," I had thought it was because of what Silas had said, but when a deep sound penetrates the air, carrying on the wind, I finally realize that the noise, the horrible, distorted growl, is coming from me.

Maura suddenly disappears from my side, leaving me standing alone as my hands ball into fists and my vision shifts, casting the world in a haze of red. As if under someone else's control, I lift my head and lock eyes with the man who raised ...