Chapter 56

Briar’s POV

The images were still there.

I didn’t know if they were true or just a fragment of my imagination—some cruel trick of my mind or something far more ancient and terrifying.

Or a memory? I couldn’t shake them off my mind, it just stuck like glue.

The little girl’s voice. Her blood-stained dress. Her red eyes.

I hugged myself tightly, my arms wrapped around my waist as though that could hold me together.

Kylan’s voice came softly from beside me. "Looking at you, I remember what Mom used to say?"

I looked up at him, my lips parting, but no words came out.

He crouched down to my level, his green eyes softer than I’d seen them in a while. "She said… you can see things in the water because the water remembers. It holds onto everything. Emotions. Memories. Blood. Magic."

I hummed. True. Kai said that just now.

His hand hovered over mine before he pulled it back. "And you… Briar, you’re co