Chapter 126

**Evangeline's POV**

I stared at the woman in the mirror, and she stared back with eyes that weren't mine.

Violet. Deep as midnight sky, cold as winter storms. When had my eyes changed color? When had brown turned to this strange purple that seemed to hold secrets I couldn't remember learning?

The black crown sat heavy on my head. Metal twisted into shapes that hurt to look at too long, thorns and ravens and things that might have been flowers if flowers ...