Shattered Sanctuary

Beatrix's P.O.V.

My tower was my safe place, my comfort zone when I wasn't with Bastian. Yet right now, I stood in the middle of it, feeling like there were bugs crawling on my skin.

The ward surrounding it hadn't just been broken.

It had been shattered. I had seen the damage to it before entering. The shimmering surface looked like it had been attacked violently, like a glass window that had t