Chaos Ensues

Vespera POV

I violently throw off my thin blankets and sprint frantically barefoot down the dark hallway, drawn entirely by Lyra’s distressed, echoing cries tearing through the dead of the night. The freezing marble floor bites painfully at the soles of my bare feet, but my instincts completely take over. I follow the wailing until I burst directly into Kavros’s expansive bedroom, entirely ignori