Mira's POV.

I woke knowing he was gone. Not from sound. Not from sight. From absence. The bond, silent for twenty years since his death, suddenly presents again. Then gone. Completely gone.

I sat up in bed. My heart was pounding for reasons I don’t know. "No," I whispered. But I knew. I walked to the memorial garden. Dawn is barely breaking.

Found Garrett already there. Standing at Kael's stone. "You feel it too?" he asked. "Feel what?"

"Like something shifted. Changed. Ended."

"I felt ...