KIRA

The palace found its new shape the way all things found new shapes, slowly and without announcing it, the change only visible in retrospect when you looked at how things were and remembered how they'd been.

Petra had a room on the same corridor as Mira, which she'd chosen herself from three options Lyra had offered, selecting it because it had two windows and she wanted to be able to see the stable yard from one of them. She spent her mornings with Mira and her afternoons largely ...