Before the Answers Find You

Harper

The echoing boom of the incredibly heavy wooden doors violently slamming shut entirely on their own behind us still rattled my teeth, vibrating deep into the soles of my boots. The crisp, freezing night air hit us sharply, a stark and stinging contrast to the suffocating, terrifying silence of the Spire we had just barely escaped. I sucked the icy oxygen into my lungs, feeling a desperate,