Chapter 28
Lyra,
It would be the greatest privilege to be privy to your cracks and fractures.
I recognize how precious of an exchange it is when one person bleeds in front of another, not attempting to hide the source of their wound.
And so I would like you to know you can always bleed in front of me.
That you may untether that armor and remove the weight of it from your soul.
As such, allow me to ask you a list of questions—most of which have been plaguing my mind—and provide you with nothing but open space to answer however you please. Because I will never judge your answers; I simply long to be the vessel allowed to help contain them.
I should start by letting you know Gray told me about your nightmares. How they haunt you more nights than not. Are they keeping you awake at night?
Have you been having thoughts of your mother? Of all the cruel memories you were forced to face in the Feargate? Of the events following the Feargate…
Are you feeling your pain? Your grief?
Are you feeling at all?
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