Bound by Debt

Talia POV

"Karn."

I said it the way you say something when your brain is still catching up to your eyes.

He was standing behind me. In the forest. Fully present and unaccounted for in a way that made no immediate sense because the last place I had left Karn was a storage room with a locked door and root vegetables and Lucius's specific instructions about how the rest of his existence was going to