Chapter 6— One who breaks trying.

Kyra

There’s a space between waking and being stuck in a memory where pain doesn't yet exist and breathing feels lighter. I wanted to stay there, in that fragile pocket of nothing, pretending that everything was okay, that all of these were just a damn nightmare but the memory came crashing in like a tide dragging me back to the surface of reality.

One after the other, they filtered in.

James.

The banishment.

Father.

Tristan Banewolff.

The ...