CHAPTER 199: Hunger

LYRA

The dreams come every night now, they're vivid and violent fantasies that leave me gasping and desperate when I wake.

It's blood that paints my subconscious.

It's been three nights since we eliminated the Council scouts. And today is the last day before they start to question their disappearance.

I sit up in bed, my body slightly cold. The dream was particularly vivid this time. I was standin