FIA
I nodded. "It's true."
Cian waited, his hand still warm in mine. The water lapped gently at our feet.
"I don't understand it myself." I pulled my knees up to my chest, wrapping my free arm around them. "She didn't feel like an apparition. She felt real. Very real."
The memory played behind my eyes. That woman on the road, and how strange she looked.
"It was like..." I searched for the right words. "Like seeing her appealed to my sense of justice? I wanted to save her."
Cian's thumb traced circles on the back of my hand. He didn't interrupt.
"That was when the accident happened." My voice came out flat. The words felt too simple for what had occurred, but I didn't know how else to say it.
"That's powerful magic." Cian's jaw tightened. "Who do you think did it?"
I stared at the moon's reflection in the water. The ripples from our feet distorted it, breaking the perfect circle into fragments.
