A Bitter Awakening

Silence fills the room once again, interrupted only by the roar of the storm beyond the windows. Lorcan doesn't raise his head. He continues staring at Lyra's handwriting, as though he expects to find a different explanation in those words, something that will allow him to deny what he has just discovered.

But there is nothing else written.

Only the truth Lyra discovered before any of them.

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