Chapter 68. Things Have Changed

Cassian POV

I can’t tell whether Lyra is back with me or not. She’s looking directly at me, but her eyes are distant. She might be in shock. She has just spent the last several minutes with her eyes wide open, just staring straight ahead. A few times, she said something, but it was almost like it was in another language, because I couldn’t understand a word of it.

But now, she turns to Freyja and speaks normally. “Did you hear it, too?”

Freyja smiles and inclines her head gracefully. “I did,” she confirms.

“Hear what?” I ask.

“Then it’s true,” Lyra adds.

“It is,” Freyja says, her smile widening.

Lyra looks at me as though she’s only now realizing that I’m in the room, though she was just staring right at me. But she stil