Skylar.

I woke up to the sound of humming.

It was faint, coming through the wall, flat and low like always. But this time I noticed something I hadn't noticed in all the years I'd heard it. My body went heavy when she hummed. My limbs felt full of warm sand, and my thoughts slowed and sank, like I was being tucked in against my will.

I sat up so fast Conrad grunted behind me.

The humming stopped. The heaviness lifted. And something deep in my chest, a small, bright thing I had never been ...