The Restless Dark

VANCE’S POV

Rowan falls asleep mid-sentence.

One moment she is saying something about the cousin, and the next her voice goes soft and trailing, and her breathing evens out, and she is gone, just like that, the way only someone running on nothing can sleep.

Like a light switching off.

I lie there in the dark and listen to her breathe.

The Dominion settles around us the way it always does at this h