Fractured Truths

TORIN

I remained in the carriage vault long after Talia left.

The silence around me allowed my thoughts to return to Maevia again and again. Each memory surfaced with more clarity now that I understood what she had been carrying during those weeks.

I remembered the day she burned the portrait sketches I had given her. At the time I believed it was an act of anger meant to provoke a reaction from m