Chapter 129

*Elora*

I couldn’t tell where I ended and she began anymore.

My thoughts didn’t feel like mine—not entirely. They echoed through my head like distant voices in a room I no longer controlled. My memories unraveled as I tried to reach for them, slippery and unsteady, like wet ink bleeding across parchment. Whenever I grasped one, Eirlys’s voice would slip in, curling through it like smoke, tainting