Chapter 183

*Kaelen*

There are things you can unsee, and then there are things that bury themselves behind your eyes and stay there. The image of the dying rogue hadn’t faded, not even hours later. His voice, thin and torn, still echoed in my skull: The Void-Reach are listening. They heard the child stir.

It was that last word—stir—that followed me like a second shadow. I kept replaying the way his fingers gr