Kaya's brows pulled together.
Her vision had always been good in the dark. She knew that. Streets, alleys, stupid corners back in her old world—she'd learned to move in shadows because she had to. But the way she'd walked that tunnel earlier? The way she'd seen every step when Veer, an actual vulture, had been half‑blind behind her? That wasn't normal. Vultures are known for long‑distance sight in daylight, using dense receptors in their eyes to spot carcasses far away from the air, but they're not built for pitch‑black caves. [1][2]
'So why the hell could I see better than him?'
It felt… wrong. Like someone had slipped a night‑camera into her skull. Those things wildlife people use to film animals in the dark—infrared, no‑glow, whatever the term was—turning nothing into clear images.[3][4] Her eyes had felt like that in the tunnel. Now, up here, they were still acting like they'd been tuned past human.
