~LYRA'S POV~
I kept it to myself for three days.
Not because I didn't trust Ryland or Eren, I trusted both of them in ways I hadn't trusted anyone before the last year of my life, but because I needed to look at it from every available angle before I put it in front of anyone else. Once I said it out loud to another person, it became a thing that existed in the shared world, a thing that had implications and required responses and couldn't be quietly re-examined in private anymore.
And I needed to be sure, first, that I wasn't simply building something out of grief.
