Chapter 55: The Night Everything Collapses
Liora's POV
By the time the sun began to set, the fortress no longer felt like the same place.
It wasn't something I could point to directly. The walls were still standing, the guards were still moving through the corridors, and nothing looked broken on the surface. But something had shifted underneath it all, something deeper that made every sound feel sharper and every silence heavier than it should have been.
I could hear it even from my room.
Voices.
Not loud enough to make out words, but enough to know that people were talking. Arguing. Whispering things they wouldn't dare say openly. Every now and then, footsteps would rush past the door faster than usual, followed by the faint clink of armor or the low murmur of guards exchanging information they weren't supposed to share.
The entire fortress felt… unsettled.
And somehow, I knew I was at the center of it.
