*Calix*

I didn’t know whether to be angry or sad, foolish or spiteful. Had I known she would figure out a way to escape? Of course, I did. If I had learned anything about Lynn since she first arrived, it was that she always got her wish.

It didn’t matter without her. None of it did. I tried to find her, to use our growing bond to seek her out, but wherever she had gone, she was too far for me to feel her.

The forest grew thick around the castle, and her ...