Tides of Guilt

For a long moment, no one moved.

The door had already swung shut behind Colin, but the echo of his voice still lingered in the room—sharp, poisonous, clinging to the air like smoke.

You might want to ask him what really happened to Dr. Thorne.

The room felt too still. Too heavy.

Kaelen didn’t flinch. Didn’t speak. Didn’t even look at anyone.

But Lyra felt it—the subtle shift beneath the surfac