CHAPTER 206: The Cold

LYRA

Cold.

That’s the first thing I feel. It’s not like the winter cold, or even the chill that comes after a rain, but something even deeper. Something that comes from a place that shouldn’t exist.

I open my eyes to bright white light.

Everything is wrong. The world around me shimmers, like glass. I’m standing in a field of soft grass that moves without wind, under a sky that holds no sun, no clo