Unveiling the Shadows

The words lingered in the air, thick and immovable, like smoke that refused to clear.

Lyra’s chest rose and fell in uneven breaths, her body frozen in the chair, her mind torn between everything she already knew and everything she had just learned.

He had shown her pieces of this world—his control, his silence, his shadows—but this…

This was the truth. His truth. A part of it, because she knew