Zoe POV

I don't move.

I don't change my expression, don't let my breath shift, don't give a single thing away to the room around me. The warriors are still positioned at their distances, Vark is somewhere behind me, the restraints are still biting into my wrists. Everything looks exactly the way it looked a second ago.

But inside my chest, something has just changed completely.

The voice comes back, quiet and warm and unmistakably hers.

I close my ...