CASSIAN
The exact second Julian's body hit the floorboards, with the dark blood rushing out from his neck, something inside my head snapped.
It wasn't a choice I made. It wasn't a sudden wave of fury, or a heavy weight of grief, or even the basic instinct to keep my own heart beating.
The entire world just went completely silent.
The room turned blindingly white, not like a flash of physical light, but as if my brain had simply shut off every single sight and sound that didn't matter right that second.
My body started moving before the thinking part of my mind could even form a single word.
The guards who were pinning my arms back thought they were holding a regular man, a human being who could feel pain or worry about a blade. .
What they were holding now was a wild animal, a desperate creature that had nothing left to lose. They were going to figure that out in about two seconds.
