Chapter 70

*Elora*

There were eyes on me.

Not the obvious ones—Kael’s fierce, watchful gaze or Slo’s protective glances across the dining hall. These were quieter. More deliberate. The kind you didn’t see, but felt.

The kind that made the back of your neck prickle. That turned every mirror into a threat and every shadow into a whisper.

It started two days after the ceremony. After the sigil seared my skin li