Chapter 244

Delilah

The hallway was quiet. After the number of celebrations that were in town, it was hard for me to get used to the sudden quietness, though I did not understand why I felt it wrong for them to celebrate. It just felt hard.

I just knew the things were not going to go well. I knew that there was something that I wanted to remember, I just did not know what it was.

And the quietness, it just became too much.

It was the kind that presses in on your ears like silence has weight. It was the kind that made your heart throb as you looked away, trying to find where it came from, trying to find something to make a sound, to ease whatever it is that you’re feeling.

I sat on the window ledge, knees drawn to my chest, the glass cold against my back. Outside, the trees stood still, no wind left to carry away the dust of war. We had won, for now. But peace didn’t feel like peace. Not when my chest still felt like it might cave in at any moment.

Not